Quotes by Fiction Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. Aldous Huxley character mean fiction I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. Aleksandar Hemon lines facts fiction I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction. Aleksandar Hemon brain writing fiction In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. Aleksandar Hemon bosnians literature fiction The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. Aleksandar Hemon literature writing fiction A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss. Alexander McCall Smith powerful loss fiction Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. Alexander McCall Smith character fiction needs I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction. Alexander McCall Smith helping fiction thinking An old novel has a history of its own. Alexander Smith novel fiction Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction. Alexandra Kerry stronger century fiction Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality. Alfred Adler neurosis medical fiction In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction. Alfred Adler looks way fiction If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal. Alfred Bertram Guthrie association character fiction Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense. Alfred Bester nonsense silly fiction I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. Alfred Hitchcock scene book fiction In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock documentaries directors fiction [Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths. Ali Smith pieces fiction thinking I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane. Alice Hoffman science-fiction science-love fiction The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination. Alice Mattison imagination fiction I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. Alice Munro everything-happens-for-a-reason long fiction «1234567891011»