Fiction Quotes

15 quotations about Fiction
Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney · Fiction
Romances I never read like those I have seen.
Lord Byron · Fiction
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
Italo Calvino · Fiction
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Robert Coover · Fiction
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow · Fiction
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Richard Hughes · Fiction
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Aldous Huxley · Fiction
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James · Fiction
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James · Fiction
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King · Fiction
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
Milan Kundera · Fiction
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Mario Vargas Llosa · Fiction
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Andre Maurois · Fiction
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Gore Vidal · Fiction
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde · Fiction

Authors on Fiction

Natalie Clifford Barney Lord Byron Italo Calvino Robert Coover E. L. Doctorow Richard Hughes Aldous Huxley Henry James Stephen King Milan Kundera Mario Vargas Llosa Andre Maurois Gore Vidal Oscar Wilde