Fiction Quotes · Page 53

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

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

— Justin Cartwright

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

— Harry Crews

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

— Mark Twain

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

— Nelly Ben Hayoun

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

— Judith Merril

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more…

— Joe Morton

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down…

— Lembit Opik

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set…

— Jeremy Bulloch

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's…

— Paul Haggis

“We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does…

— Susan Fletcher

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It…

— Salman Rushdie

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out…

— Karen Thompson Walker

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up…

— Neil Gaiman

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can…

— Bruce Sterling

“I’m pretty sure she’s got an angel job now where she plucks a large handful of flowers and carries them up to…

— JoDee Neathery

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking…

— Virginia Woolf

“It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was…

— Marina Warner

We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the…

— Nicholson Baker

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

— Chuck Klosterman

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

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

— Anthony Horowitz

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

— Mike Mills

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

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

— Anonymous

“Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

— Mitch Albom

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

— Amanda Schull

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

— Greg Cox

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

— John Updike

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion,

— George Saunders

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

— Frank Herbert