Fiction Genre Quotes

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.

I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I was never a 'Mills and Boon' kind of a person.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of work to get to the local book store to grab my favourites before they all disappeared.

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

I'm kind of... I'm a sci-fi fan, and I like horror; I'm a genre fan... but fantasy's not really ever something I've gotten into.

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.