Quotes About Fiction

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction.

A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth. - Barney Stinson

It's all make believe, isn't it?

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that person's eyes, hear with her ears, think with his thoughts, feel with her feelings. It is the only form of art which can accomplish that feat so deeply, so completely. And thus it is the perfect bridge for helping us coming to know the other - the other inside as well as outside ourselves. (x)

A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are to hire a soapbox instead.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Ida was a natural historian who knew how to throw in enough fiction to keep up dramtic tension. And she was replete with details, like a big fat colorful nineteenth-century historical novel, inching forward slowly....Ida's narrative line, like her waistline, was ample.

Fiksie verg nou eenmaal 'n gedeeltelike verdoeseling of vervalsing van feite, anders is dit nie meer fiksie nie.

Sometimes, when I read a book, I miss the characters when I finish it. When I truly love a book, I read it slowly because I want to remain with those characters. I've experienced the same thing with TV shows and movies. There's no real difference between that and getting attached to a boy from your dreams.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

It's not science fiction; it's fact. It's not a script; it's Scripture. It's not an accident; it's a divine appointment. Can I make a simple observation? Notice who's next to you! What you think is a seat assignment might be a divine assignment. The person two inches away may change your destiny, or you might change theirs!

children, in Gorey stories, are an endangered species.

This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

A writer's refuge is imagination. Therein lies the ability to create a new world and bring order to chaos.

When I read, I visit other worlds. When I write, I create other worlds.

A reader finds a new reality on the page, interacts with an imaginary world, and is enriched by doing so.

A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides.

A novel need not impart information or inform. It must seduce & snare the reader with feelings & break the reader's heart.

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

Conflict reveals character--in life and in the novel.