Quotes About Fiction

It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.