Quotes of: Fictions Keyword

Or is identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

Ancillary Justice

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

hope will always be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light

Literature - Reading, Fiction, Poetry & Drama 6th edition

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

I steal," Winkle said, with a smile that said I’m joking and a glint in his eye that said I’m not.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

She wanted to burn the whole place to ashes but, at the same time, it would be kind of nice to see it again. Home.

Spring 2015 Debut Fiction Sampler

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction

Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You

I’m not an unproductive liar—I’m a productive fiction writer. I make stuff. I make stuff up.


Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them.

Nicholas Trandahl

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Penelope Lively

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.

Mark Twain

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Aimee Mann

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them s...

Mohsin Hamid

I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why I think it was invented and why mythology was invented; it's a tool, not an end to itsel...

Shane Carruth

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

J. K. Rowling

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

Iain Banks