Quotes About Fiction

Cinema is a great medium for creating a dream world and entering into it.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

I take escapism from books.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

Michael Crichton entitled PREY (2002). This fiction is a gripping read, in which one learns much about nanotechnology and

Considering all of the above, Sagan seems not only to have been an astronomer and a fiction writer, but also something of an intuitive "seer.

Truth is shorter than fiction.

International law is a fiction abused callously, or ignored ruthlessly, by those nations that, unlike the Western democracies, never took it seriously in the first place.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.

There is no reason why a well thought-out story should resemble real life; life strives with all its might to resemble a well thought-out story.

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message ' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.