Quotes About Fiction

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.