Quotes About Fiction

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though there was no easy way to make a living from it.

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.

almost all novels are love stories.

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.

Whether you're a vampire or werewolf, love is still love. Betrayal is still betrayal.

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

I really love the story in 'Twilight.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!