Top Fiction Quotes

  • I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun. – Neil Leckman

    I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.– Neil Leckman

  • Women’s fiction- doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears. – Sheila Heti

    Women’s fiction- doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.– Sheila Heti

  • We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies. – Val Edward Simone

    We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.– Val Edward Simone

  • This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy. – Leslie Jamison

    This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy.– Leslie Jamison

  • A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths. – Wally Lamb

    A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.– Wally Lamb

  • Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable. – Adam Langer

    Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.– Adam Langer

  • Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. – Luke Taylor

    Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.– Luke Taylor

  • I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you. – Stephen King

    I think you will find that, if you continue to write fiction, every character you create is partly you.– Stephen King

  • I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all. – Chigozie Obioma

    I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.– Chigozie Obioma

  • The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. – Flannery OConnor

    The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.– Flannery OConnor