Quotes about Fiction
If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.
— Dr. Seuss
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.
— Lydia Millet
Dawn is purely a work of fiction, but I wrote it to look at myself in a new way. Obviously I did not live this tale, but I was implicated in its ethical dilemma from the moment that I assumed my character's place.
— Elie Wiesel
We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary
— Richard Paul Evans
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
— Stephen Hawking
Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.
— Olga Tokarczuk
If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read.
— Frank Peretti
The Marvel characters are all very, very rich.
— Kari Skogland
Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.
— Ernest Cline
I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
— Frank Peretti
God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.
— Abraham Kuyper