Quotes About Fiction

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Robert Caro, author of the (yet) unfinished monumental biography of Lyndon Baynes Johnson, has noted, "The importance of a sense of place is commonly accepted in the world of fiction. I wish that were also true about biography and history.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

If you can't get your head around facts then stick with all the possibilities fiction gives.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This

she instead pictured Lady Catherine de Bourgh's bloody, broken body at her feet. It proved a more comforting thought.

12/18/89 Calvin asks Hobbes if he'll help him write a book. Calvin says this book will be like historical fiction. He's writing a fictional autobiography. He tells Hobbes it's the story of his life with a lot of parts completely made up. Hobbes asks why he'd want to make up his whole life. Calvin replies that in his book, he has a flame thrower.

The best kinds of stories are made up out of little bits of truth and stretched into a pleasing shape.

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With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn't notice and maybe still don't. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky' by Lesley Nneka Arimah blew my mind.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.

In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're playing someone fictitious, there's myriad ways in. With a real person, there's boundaries, and that sometimes makes the work easier.

I write non-fiction quicker, and I write it on a computer. Fiction I write longhand, and that helps make it clear that it comes from a slightly different part of the brain, I think.

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.