#fiction

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#be strong #constructed #fiction #film #get

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#i #nonfiction #problem #talent #well

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

— J. M. Coetzee

#clearer #fiction #saying #says #scrap

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment. ↗

— Holly Valance

#buying #done #entertainment #fictional #hopefully

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#dystopian-fiction #love #teen-fiction #beauty

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#because #even #feel #fiction #functioning

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

— Jack Vance

#fiction #i #other #read #science

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#day #demands #each #fear #fiction

What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth. There was no cure for what one had seen or done. ↗

— Hannah Blatchford

#paranormal #romance #vampire #dreams

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#assume #because #been #context #easier