Fiction Quotes · Page 63

There's no difference between science and science fiction.

— Mike Hughes

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

— Peter Benchley

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

— Irvine Welsh

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

— Steven Amsterdam

“Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

— Noam Chomsky

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

— Taiye Selasi

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen…

— Virginia Woolf

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

— Walter Kirn

“The night came on as swift and soft as a velvet dream. I was scrunched down in the front seat of my…

— Jim Cherry

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer…

— Walter Jon Williams

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Someday or the other... we will find what we are looking for, or maybe we won't, maybe we will find something much…

— Adbhut

“When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit…

— Veronica Randolph Batterson

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books…

— Anthony Burgess

I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four…

— Paul Verhoeven

“All of a sudden, life became too much to bear. Just like that, for no particular reason. Because there was a child’s…

— Anonymous

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With…

— Rian Johnson

“They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest…

— George R.R Martin

I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for…

— George R. R. Martin

“I had finally become aware of how much I was capable of, how little I had to lose, and how deep into…

— Celma Ribeiro

What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls…

— Tom Robbins

Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like…

— Douglas Adams

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

— Michael Bierut

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

— Michael Crichton

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

— Regina Spektor

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

— Aldous Huxley

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

— Jesmyn Ward

“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. —Mark Twain”

— Oliver Benjamin

“Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you. I remember how to fly.”

— L.J. Smith

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

— Frederik Pohl

“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done”

— Evan Meekins

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

— Leonard Susskind

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people…

— Jodi Picoult

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

— Mia Goth

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

— Helen McCloy

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to…

— Joel Edgerton

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

— Vernon Reid