Quotes About Fiction

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.

The game-playing aspects of detective fiction came into prominence only after the First World War, as a symptom of people's reaction to carnage and bereavement; there was a hunger for escapism, and readers relished having the chance to solve a puzzle set in a detective story.

The very first detective fiction, written by Edgar Allan Poe, may have been set in Paris, but the book usually described as the first detective novel was Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery, republished recently by the British Library.

In a way, everyone was a Don Quixote, their heads alive with plots and characters, even if they didn't act on them directly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Connealy is a Carol Award winner and a RITA Award finalist. An author

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

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Every word she [Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." (on Lillian Hellman)

Luckily, I am writing a memoir and not a work of fiction, and therefore I do not have to account for my grandmother's unpleasing character and look for the Oedipal fixation or the traumatic experience which would give her that clinical authenticity that is nowadays so desirable in portraiture.

Do you every worry about the situation you leave your characters in when you stop writing? I mean, they've got to stay put like that till one starts again.

it would have been the Reman Empire, instead of the Roman.

In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?

We only reveal what we want other people to know, right? It's like we create fictional characters for the public. And inside we're somebody totally different.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson