Fiction Quotes · Page 54

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

— Steven Spielberg

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

— Shyam Selvadurai

“The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!”

— Eli Of Kittim

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

— Neil Gaiman

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

— Rick Bass

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because…

— Katee Sackhoff

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction…

— Brad Holland

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down…

— Rebecca West

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for…

— Daniel Handler

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's…

— Jerry Pournelle

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the…

— Paul Fussell

We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because…

— Michio Kaku

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from…

— Annie Murphy Paul

Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C…

— Neal Asher

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look…

— William Shatner

A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and…

— Robert Reed

Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail…

— Azita Ghanizada

It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model…

— Tom Segalstad

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been…

— Poul Anderson

To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have…

— George Takei

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

— William S. Burroughs

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

— Daniel Woodrell

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

— Ray Bradbury

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover

“Only you know what's really floating around in your mind. Call it fiction and keep everyone guessing.”

— Richard Myerscough

“Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we’ve made it our meal ticket?”

— Scott Lynch

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

— Peter Straub

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

— Walter Jon Williams

Friends are like books, some are Fiction and some are Nonfiction.

— Anonymous

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

— Amelia Barr

There's something about fantasy and sci-fi that seems more welcoming of different ethnicities.

— Jessica Henwick

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

“But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures.”

— Anonymous