I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
Alain de Botton

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

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Graham Greene

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
Jeanette Winterson

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
Jeanette Winterson

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Jacques Barzun

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Jerzy Kosinski

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
Robert Anton Wilson

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
Mark Zuckerberg

I've always been interested in science fiction.
Martin Landau