That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Elizabeth Bowen

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

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
Bodhidharma

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Don DeLillo

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.
Don DeLillo

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
Philip K. Dick

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Tom Wolfe

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

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

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich Heine

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

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
Kathy Acker

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.
Kathy Acker

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
Jared Diamond

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

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
Eudora Welty

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Harold Acton