Fiction Quotes

"Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction."
-Mark Twain

"Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
-Oscar Wilde

"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary."
-Franklin P. Adams

"Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens."
-A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out."
-Clive James

"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
-Mark Twain

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

"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
-William Shakespeare

"What else are we living for, if not to create fiction? ."
-Saul Williams

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."
-Thomas A. Edison

"I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction."
-Ian McKellen

"This is fiction and people should not forget that."
-Steve Pontius

"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
-Arthur Christopher Benson

"It is a work of fiction. It is a piece of entertainment."
-James Mcteigue

"Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life."
-Louis Auchincloss

"Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world."
-Vincent Canby

"Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgements."
-Marc Carroggio

"It's interesting that 10 or 15 years ago this was science fiction."
-Stephen Kane

"I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business."
-Robert Reed

"I like science fiction and I read it a lot - if I were a collector, I would bid for his works."
-David Anderson

"It's really science fiction at its best."
-Tracy Mcnamara

"It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi."
-Brian Anderson

"I'm not a fan of science fiction, personally."
-Lake Bell

"This is a record-breaking number for a work of non-fiction."
-Sonny Mehta

"It's either someone impersonating them, or it's an utter work of fiction."
-Andrew Kline

"The essential quagmire of this book is that on one hand, he tells everybody this is fiction; then on the other hand, he basically tells everybody this is fact."
-Mike Stevens

"The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry."
-Reynolds Price

"But in all that, I had not done an adaptation of classic Indiana fiction."
-James Still