Fiction Quotes · Page 46

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

— Rod Serling

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

— Justin Cronin

Watch with wisdom the shadow you see is better than the spirit you known!

— D Brown

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

— Beau Willimon

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

“When dancing with a pit bull, it's always best to let him lead.”

— Michael Barnett

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of…

— Muriel Spark

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my…

— Sara Sheridan

“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.”

— Rabbi Sipporah Joseph

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and…

— Kathleen Rooney

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on…

— Neel Mukherjee

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight…

— Frank Norris

“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus,"I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could…

— John Green

Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on…

— Stephen Hawking

It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling.…

— Eudora Welty

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your…

— Mark Haddon

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and…

— Alan Lightman

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

— Julian May

“A vida real não nos concede muitas possibilidades mais do que úteis que as pessoas podem ter na ficção.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

— Elliott Colla

“familiar with Scandinavian crime fiction – Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Karin Fossum, Håkan”

— Stieg Larsson

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

— John L'Heureux

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

“No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.”

— J.K. Franko

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

— Dennis Ritchie

“Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.”

— Anonymous

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction .

— A. S. Byatt

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

— Azar Nafisi

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You couldn't wake someone when his own dreams turned out better than reality.”

— Danielle Bennett

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

— Anonymous

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

— Mona Simpson