Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

Candace Bushnell

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

Philip Levine

When I started writing, I wanted to be a fiction writer. I wanted to be a novelist.

Students who tend to read young-adult fiction are female. Most male adolescents read nonfiction.

Julia Glass

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

It's interesting that 10 or 15 years ago this was science fiction.

Buzz Aldrin

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

Janeane Garofalo

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

Ethan Hawke

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

Moby

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Ivan Reitman

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Ivan Reitman

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

H. L. Mencken

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Hugo Gernsback

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Horace

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Ruth Rendell

I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

Jill McCorkle

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.

Emma Caulfield

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

Greg Cox

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

Glenn Hoddle

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction..

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

It was just like an invasion in a science fiction movie.

John Gardner

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

John Fowles

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

Jonathan Coe

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Jonathan Carroll

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Katee Sackhoff

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

Martin Amis

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

Martin Amis

I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

Martin Amis

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Martin Amis

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.