Fiction Quotes · Page 36

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

— Neil LaBute

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

— Gore Vidal

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

— Anonymous

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

— J. Michael Straczynski

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

— John Dufresne

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.”

— Sarah Langan

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

— Andy Richter

I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is…

— Laura van den Berg

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

— Vincent Canby

my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I…

— Marion Dane Bauer

I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid…

— Richard Herring

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

— Sam Lipsyte

I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of…

— Joshua Foer

“Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know…

— Dick Peterson

“... and I knew what I wanted: I would settle in a hill station and write my novel. I had visions of…

— Yann Martel

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a…

— Melissa Rosenberg

“That was when I saw their hate come out. They fought on the front lawn. Balloons and my birthday cake stood witness…

— Joseph McGinnis

Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I…

— Joseph Kosinski

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act…

— Michael Lind

If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel…

— Cassandra Clare

This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

— Max Brooks

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

— Will Self

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

— Elizabeth Moon

“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford”

— Jack C. Monroe

“... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.”

— Thomas Sweeney

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

— Romola Garai

“This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”

— K. Ritz

“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.”

— Patti Callahan

“We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

— Jonathan Franzen

“War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.”

— Bobbye L. Hudspeth

“Life is just as deadly as it looks, but fiction is more forgiving.”

— Richard Thompson

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

— Katharine Kerr

“This is love not business or politics. I love someone. How can I replace her with someone else?”

— Pramod Verma