Top Fiction Quotes
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Brian Lumley
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
Octavia Butler
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl 
76% of people like this quote
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Brian Lumley
67% of people like this quote
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson
66% of people like this quote
Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
Laurell K. Hamilton
64% of people like this quote
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
Octavia Butler
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Dorothy Allison
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
Jonathan Lethem
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
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