Quotes About Fiction

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Writer's block is a fiction.

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

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

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story.

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually makes things feel more real than they would to begin with.

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

'Aliens' was a brilliant movie, but you still wanted to see the Alien come to Earth.

There's no such thing as a broken heart, and there's no such thing as a Sasquatch.

I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I'm much more cheered by the successes than the failures, most of which are forgivable.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

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.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.