Fiction Quotes - Page 21

• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Facts, Stranger

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• I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

  "Jamaica Kincaid talks about 'See Now Then'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mainstream, Reader, Humans

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• Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.

  S. T. Joshi

  Stars, Powerful, Character

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• I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

  Heather O'Neill

  Unfortunate Things, Childhood, Able

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• Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Believe, Differences

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• Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

  Leos Carax

  Editing, Forever, Shooting

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• I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

  Lucy Walker

  Way, Documentaries, Filmmaking

  "‘Crash Reel’ Documentarian Lucy Walker Knows Where She’s Going". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2013.

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• Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

  Peter Morgan

  Reading, Nonfiction, Pleasure

  "The Six Senses of Peter Morgan". Interview with Daniel D'Addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

  Ira Glass

  College, Class, Talent

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• I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

  Sara Shepard

  Reading, School, Brave New World

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• I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

  Philippa Gregory

  Interesting, Historical, Literature

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• The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

  Antony Beevor

  Historical, Facts, Term

  "Real concerns" by Antony Beevor, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Book, Writing, Years

  "National Book Award Winner Cynthia Kadohata on Self-Editing: 'It involves a lot of flailing around.'". Interview with Maryann Yin, www.adweek.com. November 25, 2013.

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• America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

  Karen Russell

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

  Michel Onfray

  Reality, People, Faces

  "The big questions". Philosophie magazine Interview. Translated by Isabelle Chaise, www.newstatesman.com. April 2007.

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• A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Mean, Fighting

  Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.171, Mehring Books

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• My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Stars, War, Memorable

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• Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

  Robert Boswell

  Nice, Writing, People

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• For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Honesty, Years, Stories

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• Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Facts, Boring

  "Francine Prose on ‘My New American Life’". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.theparisreview.org. May 13, 2011.

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• Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction

  Tash Aw

  Country, Years, Way

  "Growing up in the world". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

  John Clute

  Location, Titles, Bookstores

  "In defense of science fiction" by John Clute, www.cnn.com. May 26, 1999.

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• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  Garry Disher

  Red, Tactics, Outcomes

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• I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

  Heidi Julavits

  Kind, Adore, Teach

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