I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
gossip. . . is only fiction produced by non-professionals.
I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.
Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.
Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2. 5 children.
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself. )
I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.
Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense. But the flaws in a piece of fiction are, unhappily, so often also the flaws of the writer.
Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
. . . Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth. ' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.
The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.