Fiction Quotes

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.