Fiction Quotes · Page 58

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.”

— Y.K. Raikou

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

— Ira Glass

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

— Janette Rallison

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

— Ron Carlson

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

— Jean Baudrillard

I was always into science fiction and I always liked sci-fi. Aliens! Spaceships! And all that stuff.

— Marky Ramone

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

— Walter Salles

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

— Walter Jon Williams

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It…

— Jerry Pournelle

“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87”

— Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought…

— Michael Ruse

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re…

— Anonymous

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from,…

— Walter Salles

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

— Robin Williams

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves.…

— Alan Moore

“A large piece of lead floated out of Bobby head, followed by dark chunks of what could only be pieces of Bobby's…

— Edison McDaniels

“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were…

— Louis Auchincloss

“In reading Western science fiction, Chinese readers discover the fears and hopes of Man, the modern Prometheus, for his destiny, which is…

— Xia Jia

In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that…

— Herbert Marcuse

Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have…

— Isaac Asimov

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

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of…

— Joanna Scott

“We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.”

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi.

— Travis Beacham

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

— Ellen Glasgow

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

— Fay Weldon

People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

— Cameron Winklevoss

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

— Bennett Miller

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary”

— Washington Irving

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

— Herman Wouk

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

— Alice Walker

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

— Jack L. Chalker

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

— Charlyne Yi

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

— Jack Vance

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

— Jeri Ryan

“I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.”

— Kevin J Anderson