As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles de Lint

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Jeanne Moreau

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
John Le Carre

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
John Le Carre

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V. S. Naipaul

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
Amy Tan

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
Amy Tan

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

I love science fiction.
Pam Grier

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.
Jessica Hagedorn

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
Tim Roth

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Ivana Trump

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil

I don't read Science Fiction.
Brent Spiner

Science fiction still is an idea genre.
Sheri S. Tepper

I like going back and writing fiction.
Julia Sweeney

A public is a necessary fiction.
Rowan D. Williams

I quite enjoy science fiction.
Lexa Doig

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton