(426 quotes found)
“There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.”
E. L. Doctorow
“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.”
Charles de Lint
“Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.”
Peter Conrad
“If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.”
Anthony Burgess
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction”
Pierre Pachet
“A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
Edward Albee
“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
Katherine Anne Porter
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.”
Philip Roth
