Quotes about "fiction"

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Sell also: fable, fabrication

Definitions and meanings of word "fiction"

• Noun: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• Noun: a deliberately false or improbable account

Featured authors with quotes containing word "fiction"

Frederik Pohl
9 quotes about fiction
American Writer
Wednesday 26 November 1919 - Monday 2 September 2013
Jean M. Auel
6 quotes about fiction
American Writer
Born Tuesday 18 February 1936
Theodore Sturgeon
7 quotes about fiction
American Writer, Author
Tuesday 26 February 1918 - Wednesday 8 May 1985
Octavia Butler
8 quotes about fiction
American Writer
Sunday 22 June 1947 - Friday 24 February 2006
Jodi Picoult
7 quotes about fiction
American Author
Born Thursday 19 May 1966
Mark Twain
4 quotes about fiction
American Author
Monday 30 November 1835 - Thursday 21 April 1910
Jerry B. Jenkins
4 quotes about fiction
American Novelist, Author
Born Friday 23 September 1949
Mark Haddon
5 quotes about fiction
English Novelist, Poet
Born Wednesday 26 September 1962
Elizabeth Moon
5 quotes about fiction
American Author
Born Wednesday 7 March 1945
Tim LaHaye
4 quotes about fiction
American Author, Clergyman, Speaker
Tuesday 27 April 1926 - Monday 25 July 2016
Robert Morgan
5 quotes about fiction
American Poet
Born 1944
Jennifer Weiner
4 quotes about fiction
American Writer, Journalist, Producer
Born Saturday 28 March 1970

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Bret Easton Ellis

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My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Bret Easton Ellis

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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Bret Easton Ellis

Words: play, fiction, fact, distilled, truth
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It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

Bret Easton Ellis

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I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

Bret Easton Ellis

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I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

Bret Easton Ellis

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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Bret Easton Ellis

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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Bret Easton Ellis

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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Bret Easton Ellis

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Bret Easton Ellis

Words: truth, stranger, fiction, obliged, stick, possibilities
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I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

Bret Easton Ellis

Words: mean, literary, fiction, better, genre, contrary, novels, perform, two, functions, one
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