Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mira Nair

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Ron Rash

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Raymond Queneau

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Vin Diesel

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

Will Self

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

Vladimir Nabokov

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Yancy Butler

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

William S. Burroughs

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

William H. Gass

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

Wilkie Collins

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Vanna Bonta

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Val McDermid

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

Susan Mitchell

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Stephen King

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Stephen King

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

Tea Obreht

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

Rupert Brooke

Youth is stranger than fiction.

Ruth Glick

Nobodys life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Rowan Williams

A public is a necessary fiction.

Rod Serling

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Wallace Stevens

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Walker Percy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Walker Percy

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Salman Rushdie

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.