I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.
If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.
If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.
I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.
I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
