The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.
Tracey Emin

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Leo Rosten

I love science fiction.
Pam Grier

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee

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

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Orson Scott Card

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
Orson Scott Card

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

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

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

I prefer fact to fiction.
Richard Attenborough

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Dorothy Allison

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
J. M. Coetzee

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 don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
Robert Morgan