Quotes About Fiction

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

The only thing that changes in my novels are the locations.

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

I have not done too many fiction shows, yes, people love me for my roles on TV.

If you're creating a story, it's a lovely sort of secret thing going on in your head.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

If people believe that the Geto Boys really do stuff like on 'Mind of a Lunatic,' they must also believe there's a real Freddie Krueger and a real Micheal Myers.

I'm almost able to be more honest by lying. By making everything up, I'm able to say what I really want to.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I pretended to be Carrie Bradshaw while I wrote from my apartment.

Madame Bovary is myself.

You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

I used to read a lot of books and magazines about Dracula.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

That's what acting is: really make-believe.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

There goes Mig with her happy endings again, Chris said. But I don't care. I like happy endings. And I asked Chris why something should be truer just because it's unhappy. He couldn't answer.

If you annoy me, watch out! I shall put you in a book as a baddie and then make people laugh at you.