The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I did a lot of science fiction, and I've done a number of post-apocalyptic science fiction environments. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.” — Talia Copy Share Image
“The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.” — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom may not be wise. Good fortune and bad luck do not exist. Freedom of choice is predetermined. Don’t believe anything… — L. Anthony Copy Share Image
“He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Mmm.” Sebastian moaned. “It’s so delicious.” He laughed then. “It’s not the Poisonous Desert; it’s the Oreo Desert.” He scooped up handfuls… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for… — James Callis Copy Share Image
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for. — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“Roads do not choose what they carry. Kings Armies Pilgrims Famine Grief All pass beneath the same stone.” — Harshit Dixit Copy Share Image
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
