Darryl Pinckney Quotes

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

I like short stories.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all the books would be a continual questioning of what's true and what's not true, what's documented and what's not documented.

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

I just love fiction. I love it.

Good travel books are novels at heart.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

I'm a city girl from Seoul City, where I grew up, to Tokyo & Paris.

The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.

The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

almost all novels are love stories.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.