3,834 Quotes About Fiction

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

This is a record-breaking number for a work of non-fiction,

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.

This shows the president is more interested in science fiction than science.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.