Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilkie Collins

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

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.

William Faulkner

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

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.

Yann Martel

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

Zoe Saldana

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.