Quotes About Fiction

TV is not accurate.

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.

Fan fictions are an alternate universe.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.

I love 'Afterlife with Archie.'

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

History is, or ought to be, what it was; while romance ought to be "the better world," as was said by Mme. Necker, one of the most distinguished thinkers of the last century.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

The way an institution works is that you go along with the prevailing fiction.