Fiction Quotes - Page 18

• Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Book, Reading, People

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• A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Heart, Legends, Layers

  Caroline Llewellyn (1994). “Life Blood”

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• I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.

  Augusto De Luca

  Art, Keys, Doors

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• The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.

  Lucio Russo

  Past, Culture, Genius

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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• my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Looks, Deeper, Universal

  Marion Dane Bauer (1995). “A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

  Alice McDermott

  Writing, Order, Needs

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• Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Race, Dystopian Fiction, Literature

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• At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Teaching, Writing, Class

  "True voice brings 'True Detective' to life". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. January 22, 2014.

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• I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot of things for me to try to get right at once, and rules help me to stay organized. But my favorite rule of all is that, ultimately, there are no rules.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Writing, Advice, Trying

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• The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

  Randy Pausch

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Powerful, World

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• The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Lying, Spurs, Details

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Thinking, Pieces, Way

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• If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Justice, Diversity, Allies

  "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.

  O.R. Melling

  Book, Two, Taste

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• Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

  Ben Browder

  Science Fiction, Hard

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• Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

  David Foster

  Moving, Mountain, Boring

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• All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Sea, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debtors, Literature, Novel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.274, Bantam Classics

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• I can remember when Pulp Fiction came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Impact, Years, Remember

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• I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

  Darlene Cates

  Roles, Comedy, Fats

  "'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' Actress Losses 250 lbs, Wants to Act Again". Interview, www.worstpreviews.com. August 10, 2012.

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• They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.

  Dennis Miller

  Civilization, Cartoon, Rooms

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• We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Queens, Tired, Reality

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• The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

  Lucy Poate Stebbins

  Lying, Writing, Roots

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