#fiction

Millions cheer the warrior spilling blood across the ring while the one who stands for peace is ridiculed and shamed. Must hearts forever suffer from ignorance and greed? Can bombs heal our souls or set our spirits free? ↗

— Aberjhani

#fantasy #lyrics #novel #paranormal-fiction #peace

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #make #sense #stranger #than

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#fantasy #fiction #horror #i #mostly

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#done #fiction #find #get #how

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#fiction #needs #perception #pressure #secret

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

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

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

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread