Quotes About Fiction

I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?

Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.

The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.