Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Garry Disher

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

Carla H. Krueger

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Charles de Lint

Even if it is a vice to read science fiction, those who cannot understand the very temptation to that vice will not be likely to tell us anything of value about it.

C.S. Lewis

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

Chris Morris

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Henry Rollins

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Italo Calvino

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Irvine Welsh

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

J. G. Ballard

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

John Banville

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

John Banville

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

John le Carre

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

Emilia Fox

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Ernest Hemingway

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Edward P. Jones

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

Barry Unsworth

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

Brian K. Vaughan

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.

Chris Bohjalian

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

Guy Gavriel Kay