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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

— Charles Frazier fiction

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

— Tana French fiction

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

— Jeaniene Frost fiction

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

— David Frum fiction

The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction - my final book never ends up looking like the synopsis.

— Michelle Gagnon fiction

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass fiction

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

— David Gerrold fiction

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

— Jennifer Gilmore fiction

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

— Ira Glass fiction

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

— Arnon Goldfinger fiction

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

— Terry Goodkind fiction

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

— Mary Gordon fiction

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

— Robert Gottlieb fiction

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Mark Haddon fiction

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

— Jessica Hagedorn fiction

For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur in my mind. Everything became a visual memory for me. I carried my Leica camera, giving opportunity to take pictures from my view.

— John Van Hamersveld fiction

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

— Sophie Hannah fiction

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach fiction

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

— David Hare fiction

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

— Frank Harris fiction

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

— John C. Hawkes fiction

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

— John Twelve Hawks fiction

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

— Steven Heighton fiction

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

— Heinrich Heine fiction

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

— Ed Helms fiction

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

— Aleksandar Hemon fiction

The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up.

— Michael Hirst fiction

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman fiction

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

— Marya Hornbacher fiction

Some of the food in Liquor is food Ive really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

— Poppy Z Brite fiction

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. Its fictions business to ask them.

— Richard Hughes fiction

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

— Robert Jordan fiction

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

— Tim Lahaye fiction

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

— Jen Lancaster fiction

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

— Robert Lutz fiction

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story cant.

— Ray Mckinnon fiction

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

— Marco Tempest fiction

Life is a work of fiction. Almost.

— Prasad Narulkar fiction

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Sterling fiction

With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess-game he was witnessing, move by move.

— Fahrenheit 451 fiction

Brent: Well why cant you do that yourself. Did some fictional hooligan steal your make believe ladder?

— Corner Gas fiction

Numbers are in a certain precise sense, formal. The relation of the symbol two to the meaning of a proposition in which it occurs is far more complicated than the relation of the symbol red to the meaning of a proposition in which it occurs. We may say, in a certain sense, that the symbol two means nothing, for, when it occurs in a true statement, there is no corresponding constituent in the meaning of the statement. We may continue, if we like, to say that numbers are eternal, immutable, and so on, but we must add that they are also logical fictions.p. 156.

— A History of Western Philosophy fiction

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

— Alfred Adler fiction

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

— Armistead Maupin fiction

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

— B. R. Ambedkar fiction

Mr. ONeill: So, what Gardner is telling us is that the writer of fiction has a duty that goes beyond the mere telling of a story. His or her job is to tell a story in such a way as to leave the reader. what, Kevin?

— Daria fiction

Marcus Aurelius: Let us pretend that you are a loving daughter, and I am a good father.Lucilla: This is a pleasant fiction, is it not?

— Gladiator 2000 fiction

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

— H. G. Wells fiction

I think a child should be allowed to take his fathers or mothers name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

— James Joyce fiction

Mimi: Well, Im afraid I havent read you either, Jennifer. But, of course, my readers arent into fiction, theyre more into making their own scene.

— Murder She Wrote fiction

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

— P. D. James fiction

Dwight: Once Im officially regional manager, my first order of business will be to demote Jim Halpert. So I will need a new number two. My ideal choice? Jack Bauer. But he is unavailable, fictional, and overqualified.

— The Office U.S. TV series fiction

I dont write tracts, I write novels. Im not a preacher, Im a fiction writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin fiction

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

— Neil Gaiman fiction

Chaucer: I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.

— A Knights Tale 2001 fiction

Holly Kennedy: Oh, never mind. Im just screwed up. Im trouble... yeah.William: I like trouble.Holly Kennedy: Oh no, I dont mean cool Pulp Fiction trouble. I mean mental case wacko trouble.

— PS I Love You 2007 fiction

Squire: No, its all true. Everyone thinks the dragons are creatures of myth, fiction. Theyre real Ben, at least one was, and is!

— Ben 10: Alien Force fiction

John Harrison: John Harrison was a fiction created the moment I was awoken by your Admiral Marcus to help him advance his cause. A smokescreen to conceal my true identity. My name isKhan.

— Star Trek Into Darkness fiction

The temptation to reform, rather than abandon, the adaptive fiction is omnipresent.Democracy as an adaptive fiction

— Curtis Yarvin fiction

The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you Jenny Beckman. Bitch.

— 500 Days of Summer fiction

After letting the game sit for a while Oh, dont mind me. Im only a fictional character in a simulated universe, after all. I havent anything better to do, really. Im just a bunch of electrons floating around inside your console, and a few hundred kilobytes of data stored on your DAS disk. DONT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO MEEEE!

— Destroy All Humans! fiction

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— G K Chesterton fiction

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so its pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling fiction

But why, then, did I dislike Greek learning, which was full of such tales? For Homer was skillful in inventing such poetic fictions and is most sweetly wanton; yet when I was a boy, he was most disagreeable to me. I believe that Virgil would have the same effect on Greek boys as Homer did on me if they were forced to learn him. For the tedium of learning a foreign language mingled gall into the sweetness of those Grecian myths. For I did not understand a word of the language, and yet I was driven with threats and cruel punishments to learn it.Book 1, Chapter 14, p. 14

— Confessions Augustine fiction

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

— Herman Wouk fiction

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

— John Kenneth Galbraith fiction

The fiction of an ideal language composed of pure atomic statements is as metaphysical as the fiction of Laplaces spirit. Scientific language, with its ever growing equipment of systematic symbol formations, can by no means be regarded as an approximation to such an ideal language.p. 91

— Otto Neurath fiction

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

— V S Naipaul fiction

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction .

— A. S. Byatt fiction

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if facts are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

— J C Watts fiction

Julius Caesar — virgil.org An Annotated Guide to Online Resources categorized into Primary Sources, Background & Images, Modern Essays & Historical Fiction.

— Julius Caesar fiction

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

— Wallace Stegner fiction

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