Quotes:A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes
fiction.
View quotes by William FaulknerEverything a writer learns about the art or craft of
fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say
View quotes by Raymond ChandlerA stage play requires very different craft from a book,
fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
View quotes by Dirk BenedictCut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or
fiction or epic poetry left
View quotes by Robert LyndA film is - or should be - more like music than like
fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
View quotes by Stanley KubrickA
fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
View quotes by Susan SontagEverything is becoming science
fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
View quotes by J G BallardIf you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself.
Fiction is association, not
View quotes by A B Guthrie JrFacts have long since upstaged
fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
View quotes by Peter ConradThe past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately
fiction.
View quotes by Bernard MalamudScience
fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
View quotes by Isaac AsimovMoney doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a
fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
View quotes by Martin AmisFiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
View quotes by Virginia WoolfAs man sows, so shall he reap. In works of
fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
View quotes by Charles ChesnuttThe notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic
fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
View quotes by Tom WolfeI spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying
fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
View quotes by John DaltonIt does sound like a science
fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh...
View quotes by Lembit OpikI 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.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinleyGreat genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by
fiction.
View quotes by Heinrich HeineJournalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as
fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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