Fiction Quotes · Page 14

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

— Syd Mead

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“Role playing is the definition of fiction writers”

— M Theresa Tseng

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

— Neil Gaiman

I know how to write fiction well.

— Akhil Sharma

“He has killed me since he married me.”

— A.A. Patawaran

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

— Evan Esar

“She's so the same and yet so the incomparable!”

— Pritam banikk

“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.”

— Priya Ardis

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

— Octavia E. Butler

We couldn't own Sci Fi; it's a genre. But we can own Syfy.

— Bonnie Hammer

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

— Aneurin Bevan

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

— Gore Vidal

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

— Bonnie Hammer

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.”

— Simona Panova

I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all…

— Ed Speleers

I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,…

— William Monahan

“My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the…

— Vernon Davis

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that…

— Harry Turtledove

One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real…

— Julian Fellowes

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place…

— Isabel Allende

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

— Simon Mawer

I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.

— DJ Spooky

writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been…

— Jill Tweedie

I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend…

— Terry Pratchett

Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending…

— Tom Robbins

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,…

— Dawn French

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and…

— Joe Flanigan

When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it…

— Robert Greene

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the…

— Will Self

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,…

— J. G. Ballard

“Fiction is hardly ever fiction.”

— Cyma Rizwaan Khan

“Good fiction makes the truth believable.”

— Tarrant Smith

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

— Elizabeth Moon

I think that fiction has a certain power.

— Jesmyn Ward

“Emotions tend to entwine Earthlings together.”

— Ruchira Khanna

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

— Susie Bright

We always knew we wanted to make a fiction film.

— Ryan Fleck

“Brain out, sponge in’ fiction.”

— Hal Duncan