Fiction Quotes - Page 34

• The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  People, Poverty, Cleaning

  Source: slushpile.net

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• I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

  Kate Grenville

  Writing, Want, Writing Fiction

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.

  Sefi Atta

  Memories, Writing, Bored

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Process, Writing Process

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• It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding if one succeeds. Rewarding not only to the work but to one's peace of mind.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Writing, Feelings, Mind

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• The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and ideas about how they should be. I think fiction can capture that kind of thing better than other genres because in fiction you can explore the feelings of your characters - the before and the after.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Country, Character, Emotional

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• Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Emotional, Creating, Important

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• To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

  Jillian Medoff

  Writing, Character, Realistic

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.

  Philip Schultz

  Father, Struggle, Long

  Source: poems.com

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• When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

  Cate Marvin

  Jackpot, Feels, Fiction Writers

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.

  Cate Marvin

  Motivation, Writing, Character

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"

  Cate Marvin

  Plot, Balls, Stories

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

  Nick Earls

  Real, People, Attention

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them wisely. When you give them to fictional people and a fictional story, their purpose and their meaning changes, so it's best to see the version in the book as fiction entirely, wherever it started out.

  Nick Earls

  Real, Book, Character

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Fantasy, Realistic, Novel

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

  Ethan Canin

  Insulting, Like You, Ifs

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

  Ethan Canin

  Art, Differences, Care

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

  Ethan Canin

  Attention, Facts, Draws

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Way, Stranger, Truth Is

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Character, Historical

  Source: www.bernardcornwell.net

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• Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" - then I don't even want to talk to you. Or like, someone that says "I don't like science-fiction movies," or "I don't want to sit through a Western," or "I don't like violence in movies," then I completely tune out.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Hurt, Mean, Tunes

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

  Henry Rollins

  Modern, Rely, Lays

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Understanding, Desire

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

  Henry Rollins

  Powerful, Writing, Thinking

  Source: paulsemel.com

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