Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
Louis L'Amour

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Susan Sontag

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
Quentin Tarantino

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore Vidal

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Roald Dahl

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

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor

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.
James Joyce

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
John Kenneth Galbraith