Fiction Quotes
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Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true.
— Jacquelyn Mitchard
When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness.
— Craig Groeschel
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
— Francine Rivers
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.
— Alan Joshua
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races.
— A.E. Samaan
The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.
— Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.
— Susannah Mansfield
Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
— Sophie Hannah
I wasn't sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)
— Shannon A. Thompson
Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
— Rajib Mukherjee
Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I'd even had the opportunity to sin.
— Kristen Reed
Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?
— Anne Rouen
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it
— Sarah Rees Brennan
A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
— Janette Rallison
In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
— E.L. Doctorow
All remembrance of things past is fiction.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
— Will Christopher Baer
She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?
— S. Elle Cameron
She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.
— Alice Hoffman
What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
— Donna Brown
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
— Marlon James
The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give
your children to form their morals. — Richard Dawkins
The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.- RJPeters — R.J. Peters
How did they go from Braveheart to Brigadoon in less than five minutes?
— Jennifer Silverwood
Hope that doesn't hurt too much
— Eve Masters
The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such
— Georges Bataille
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
— Karin Slaughter
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
— Charlie Campbell
Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
— D.J. MacHale
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
— Frank Herbert
We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?
— Susan Fletcher
I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.
— Nicholas Dettmann
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
— Robert Sheckley
Power is a dangerous games
— Victoria Aveyard
Though a modern woman's computer is more intimate than her bed ...
— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko
When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given.
— Kayt C. Peck
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
Congratulations," she said. "You win.
— Megan Duke
Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
— Quentin Tarantino
If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.
— Gwenn Wright
Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.
— Ryan Sean O'Reilly
Lo! A call for a bloody trial-Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi
Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.
— Justin Alcala
Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. — Orson Scott Card
I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.
— Michael Gruber
Sometimes its the crazy side that accomplishes things!
— Christopher J. Fennell
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
— Mark Twain
When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say Jesus, it's for you.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
— Ron Carlson
I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.
— Wallace Stevens
The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been.
— Luo Guanzhong
Reading a non-fiction book is like a religious experience.
— Rachel Perry
How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day,
— Jonathan Larson
Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets faster and better at chasing you ...
— Tiffany FitzHenry
As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.
— Alison Croggon
All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.
— Walter Dean Myers
Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
— Jaleigh Johnson
What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.
— A.J. Vega
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
— K. Hari Kumar
I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened.
— Piper Faust
I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control ...
— Leila Meacham
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.
— Jacqueline Koyanagi
I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.
— Graham McNeill
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
I will not give up. I must not fail."Burt, Book 1 "Making it — Jamie Scallion
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.
— Faith Sullivan
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
— Gao Xingjian
Brian organised for the body to be flown back.
— Jolene Tan
I would just like to throw out there that we can all stop talking about putting things up my ass. No fly zone. Do not enter. No parking.
— Dani Alexander
We never leave a man behind and as Death Adders we always take care of our own. -Reilly Campbell
— J.J. Snow
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
— Piers Anthony
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
— Romesh Gunesekera
