Fiction Quotes

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wol...

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetr...

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s...

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you ...

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

The Witcher had a knife to his throat. He was wallowing in a wooden tub, brimfull with soapsuds, his...

At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases t...

There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had b...

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to c...

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey,...

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully u...

Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispe...

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.

Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its h...

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’v...

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes in...

These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story i...

The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful ...

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid groundi...

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete igno...

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, ...

He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- exc...

Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book whi...

The audience-- the book's actual cast-- quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dro...

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree...

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and oft...

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little materia...

It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide what...

If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys...

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

My one true love remains my self... I dump myself occasionally to keep it interesting

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent,...

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your br...

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet...

I write fiction""What’s fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and h...

This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all...

The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was ...

Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder ...

There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's hap...

Until recently, I was an ebook sceptic, see; one of those people who harrumphs about the “physical p...

No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; ...

I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...

In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's ne...

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody sa...

You need to claim the driver's seat," Cash said. "Never take a backseat in your own life! You gotta ...

It's a tough world to find yourself in, but an even tougher one to be yourself in

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

From 1929 to 1933, [age 25-29] I lived almost continuously in Berlin, with only occasional visits to...

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...

Come, kiss me sweet, and then let us return to bed, for I am tired, and I would sleep.

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like H...

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate t...

Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your p...

Well, I didn't really know what to say. So maybe I should say that I have thought about you and I li...

There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enor...

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore an...

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.

To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, ...

Isn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong...

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it...

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall ...

People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and p...

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, m...

Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...

If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people.

Huh. Well you and I just disagree. Maybe the world just feels differently to us. This is all going b...

Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need ...