Fiction Quotes - page 3

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. (Ulysses S. Grant)
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown And all that history, much that fiction weaves. View quote
Charles Lamb
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. View quote
Francis Bacon
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. View quote
Doris Lessing
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. View quote
Rose Wilder Lane
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. View quote
Tony Visconti
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. View quote
Paul Theroux
Science fiction ... means what we point to when we say it. View quote
Damon Knight
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. (Herbert Marcuse)
Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real. View quote
José Mourinho
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. View quote
Manuel Puig
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. View quote
Penelope Lively
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. View quote
Penelope Lively
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. View quote
Penelope Lively
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths. View quote
Ted Dekker
Happy endings are a luxury of fiction. View quote
Trudi Canavan
Science Fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. (David Benioff)
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. View quote
Louis L'Amour
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives. View quote
Michael Gruber
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. View quote
Elizabeth Moon