Quotes About Fiction

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

Permítame que le haga una pregunta. ¿Qué convierte en buena una historia? –La credibilidad.

Now, many directors could and would say, So what? It's just a movie. You don't have to believe in giant monkeys to direct King Kong.

Jules starts to 'Jimmie' him.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

Belief is the enemy of a storyteller

Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology.

When you write about the past, you lie with each letter, with every grapheme, including the goddamn comma.

No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. I

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.

Why do we live so painfully in our fictions? Why do we suffer so, from the things we ourselves have invented?

With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not your physical life, but it's everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake.

We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.

There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.

Nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn't and naturally concludes that she has gone mad.

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

I loved Bernard Cornwell's books.

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'