Quotes About Fiction

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

I don't know how it is for people who write fiction or literature, but for me, when I'm writing music, especially with this album, I felt compelled to hold up my end of the conversation. I want people to connect deeper with it.

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

I don't read Science Fiction.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

I don't read fiction at all.

I like going back and writing fiction.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.