There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet and, though I write fiction, I like to think that my background information is solid.Quote by Lynn Abbey about fiction
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.Quote by Francis Bacon about fiction
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.Quote by Kathy Acker about fiction
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.Quote by Kathy Acker about fiction
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.Quote by Barbara Taylor Bradford about fiction
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.Quote by Orson Scott about fiction
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good, ' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.Quote by Orson Scott about fiction
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.Quote by James Joyce about fiction
The bus schedule should be known as one of the most exquisitly creative and vividly imaginary forms of fiction ever devised by man.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fiction
I read mostly fiction and some poetry. I don't tend to read nonfiction unless I'm doing research for my own writing.Quote by Sara Paretsky about fiction
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.Quote by Harvey Pekar about fiction
I find it amusing and entertaining and I've always been a fan of science fiction. I used to read it a lot when I was younger.Quote by Roger Penrose about fiction
I like science fiction movies, but I think they are useful for giving us ideas and I think science fiction is very good at giving ideas.Quote by James Cash Penney about fiction
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about fiction
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.Quote by Isaac Asimov about fiction
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.Quote by Manuel Puig about fiction
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.Quote by Brian Aldiss about fiction