Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Peter Ackroyd

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Philippa Gregory

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

Regina Doman

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Robert Duvall

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Roddy Doyle

It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image. 

Ruth Harris

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

S. E. Hinton

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

Sophie Hannah

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Stephen King

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

Scott McCloud

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

Susan Sontag

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

Ted Dekker

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'

Tom Paulin

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

Taiye Selasi

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

Taiye Selasi

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

Keren Ann

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

Kent Haruf

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

Kurt Sutter

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

Karen Thompson Walker

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Karen Thompson Walker

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

Lev Grossman