Quotes About Fiction

All literature is gossip.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.

The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and an understanding about a shared humanity that tells its own story.

One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

As you'll find in 'Guardians of the Galaxy 2,' I'm not actually a space alien.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

I'm kind of obsessed with laser guns.