3,834 Quotes About Fiction

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer

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

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

An old novel has a history of its own.

I don't read fiction at all.

I don't do flash fiction.

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.