Sentence examples for simple fiction from inspiring English sources

When asked why he chose to write about war in fiction rather than non-fiction, Klay's answer is relatively simple: "Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through".

"I could see the young Tolstoy moving, as if out of need, to the discovery of fiction: starting as a careful descriptive writer... and then, as though seeing an easier and a better way of dealing with the horrors of the Sebastopol siege, doing a simple fiction, setting characters in motion, and bringing the reality closer".

That is more than simple fiction.

But Shelley's story runs far deeper than simple horror fiction, and questions of suspenseful artistry are not the ones Roseanne Montillo asks in "The Lady and Her Monsters".

Indeed, even the highly arcane story of the intergalactic ruler Xenu ... is related by Hubbard in the style of a simple science fiction novel".

The solution is simple: with the fiction exhausted, why not turn to the life of the fictioneer, and treat it as if it were a book in the first place?

She brings a new flavor to the commonplace meal of mother-daughter unease: "Most mothers in the simple world of fiction... symbolize security -- warm breasts, milk, applecake, uncritical love.

Something from science fiction, or simple madness".

It is a style perfectly poised between the flourishes of fiction and simple matters of fact, a style neither above nor beneath itself, and which always takes the superficial seriously, and the serious as a potential form of entertainment.

How it ends (this time): One of our most talented writers has written an elegant, witty work of fiction, deceptively simple, emotionally and intellectually penetrating, the kind of novel that brings a plot to satisfying closure but whose questions linger long afterward in the reader's mind.

Great fiction uses simple but elaborately crafted words on paper or screen to creates sights, sounds, smells and sensations more vivid than reality.