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Fiction Quotes

"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."

"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."

Buddy Ebsen, American Actor

Fiction, Limits, Value, Writing

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"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

12

"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."

"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."

Elizabeth Moon, American Author

Fiction, Writing

12

"But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do."

"But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do."

George Saintsbury, English Writer

Fiction, Gold, Style

11

"I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing."

"I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

Fiction, Writing

11

"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."

"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."

Steven Soderbergh, American Director

Fiction, Reality

11

"Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun."

"Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun."

Piers Anthony, English Writer

Fiction, First, Fun, Potential

11

"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

Judith Krantz, American Novelist

Fiction, Fun, Writing, Years

11

"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."

"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

Fiction, Reality, Word, Writer

10

"It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past."

"It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past."

Bruce Boxleitner, American Actor

10

"I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction."

"I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction."

J. M. Coetzee, South African Author

10

"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."

"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."

Raymond Queneau, French Poet

10

"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

Anita Diament, American Author

Fiction, Trying

10

"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."

"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."

Walter Salles, Brazilian Director

10

"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."

"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."

Raymond Queneau, French Poet

10

"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"

"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"

Tanith Lee, British Writer

Fiction, Writing

10

"That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think."

"That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think."

Walter Salles, Brazilian Director

Fiction, Open, Windows

10

"The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song."

"The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song."

Jason Mraz, American Musician

Fiction, Song, Songs

10

"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."

"It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs."

Keren Ann, Israeli Musician

Fiction, Moods, Songs

10

"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

Fiction, Writing

10

"And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing."

"And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

Fiction, Writer, Writing

10

"Simone couldn't move as she caught the hot look in his eyes. This was it and she knew it. She was lost to him. How could she deny him after all he'd done to protect her?"Simone!"She jumped at Jesse's shrill call.He popped into the room, then screamed like a girl. "I'm sorry. You two continue."Xypher let out a low, evil growl as he hung his head down and shook it over her. "I don't know about you, but that just killed my mood. The only thing to do more damage would would be to see Jesse naked. That would probably make me impotent for eternity. I think we just found the perfect birth control."

"Simone couldn't move as she caught the hot look in his eyes. This was it and she knew it. She was lost to him. How could she deny him after all he'd done to protect her?"Simone!"She jumped at Jesse's shrill call.He popped into the room, then screamed like a girl. "I'm sorry. You two continue."Xypher let out a low, evil growl as he hung his head down and shook it over her. "I don't know about you, but that just killed my mood. The only thing to do more damage would would be to see Jesse naked. That would probably make me impotent for eternity. I think we just found the perfect birth control."

Sherrilyn Kenyon, American Author

Fiction, Desire, Attraction, Humor, Chaos

10

"I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really."

"I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really."

Paul Kane, English Writer

Fiction, Personality, Respect, Writers

9

"You learn a lot, writing fiction."

"You learn a lot, writing fiction."

Penelope Lively, English Author

Fiction, Writing

9

"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Fiction, Art, Challenges, Growth

9

"There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative."

"There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative."

E. L. Doctorow, American Author

9

"I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer."

"I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer."

Tim LaHaye, American Clergyman

Fiction, Writer

9

"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."

"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."

Antonia Fraser, British Author

9

"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."

"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

Fiction, Prose, Want, Writing

9

"So what's it to be, Bear?"Dev lifted his leg and gave a sarcastic slap to his thigh."By golly, I'll take door number two, Bob. You know the one that calls for straight suicide with a side of mutilation and pain? Sign my hairy ass up for that and don't be late."

"So what's it to be, Bear?"Dev lifted his leg and gave a sarcastic slap to his thigh."By golly, I'll take door number two, Bob. You know the one that calls for straight suicide with a side of mutilation and pain? Sign my hairy ass up for that and don't be late."

Sherrilyn Kenyon, American Author

Fiction, Risk, Humor, Bravery, Pain

9

"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."

"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

9

"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."

"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."

Robert Lutz, American Executive

9

"The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700."

"The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

9

"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."

"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."

Patricia Highsmith, American Novelist

9

"If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?"

"If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?"

J. M. Coetzee, South African Author

Fiction, Saying

9

"I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all."

"I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all."

Quentin Tarantino, American Director

8

"If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine."

"If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine."

William Gass, American Novelist

8

"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."

"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."

Denis Johnson, German Writer

Fiction, Loneliness, Lonely

8

"Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere."

"Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Fiction, Evil, Imagination, Storytelling

8

"I don't read fiction at all."

"I don't read fiction at all."

Brent Spiner, American Actor

8

"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."

"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."

Kate Adie, British Journalist

Fiction, Judges

8

"What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up-Ho-HO! Now you've got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You're not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I'm talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it."

"What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up-Ho-HO! Now you've got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You're not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I'm talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it."

Libba Bray, American Author

Fiction, Imagination, Humor, Zombies, Creativity

8

"I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction."

"I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction."

Armistead Maupin, American Novelist

8

"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."

"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Fiction, Imagination, Future, Possibility, Wonder

8

"And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction."

"And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction."

Stanley Schmidt, American Writer

Fiction, Now, Writers

8

"I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one."

"I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

Fiction, Literary

7

"I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction."

"I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction."

Irvine Welsh, Scottish Novelist

Fiction, Writing

7

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

7

"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

J. K. Rowling, English Author

Fiction, Hearing, World

7

"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message."

"Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message."

Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist

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