Fiction Quotes · Page 40

“There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.”

— Krisi Keley

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a…

— David Lammy

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

— Neil Gaiman

“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.”

— Evan Meekins

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

— Vinton Cerf

“After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.”

— Michael Cox

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

— Peter Benchley

There's no difference between science and science fiction.

— Mike Hughes

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something…

— Isaac Asimov

I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.…

— Kevin Wilson

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

— Steve Erickson

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to…

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order…

— Stephen King

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that…

— Nick Hornby

“Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if…

— Erica Sehyun Song

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I…

— William Gibson

“It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science -- it's a lot more fun, and no more likely…

— Lord Rees

“PROLOGUE Some years ago in the Planet Orfheus ... It was dark when Lucius reached the rendezvous which had been chosen to…

— Anonymous

You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a…

— David McCullough

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the…

— Ray Bradbury

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or…

— Paul Di Filippo

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being…

— Martin Amis

“It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways,…

— Keri Arthur

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

— Kameron Hurley

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

— Mary Lee Settle

“Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!”

— S.B. Redd

“If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.”

— Brad Thor

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

— Mike Mills

“Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

— Anthony Horowitz

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

— Zoe Saldana

“The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.”

— Genie Frisbee

“I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.”

— Erica Sehyun Song

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

— Christopher Fry

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

— Diana Gabaldon

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein