Fiction Quotes · Page 66

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

— Arundhati Roy

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

— Philip Roth

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

— Sheri S. Tepper

“There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro”

— Patrick W. Galbraith

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you…

— David Burr Gerrard

To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys…

— Ray Bradbury

“There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than…

— Roy L. Pickering Jr

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their…

— Hari Kunzru

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

— Diana Penty

Writing fiction is brilliant because you can totally exaggerate everything and not have to worry about legal issues.

— Coleen Nolan

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

— Stephen Hawking

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a…

— Paul Auster

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from…

— Mary Kay Andrews

One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and…

— Robert Goolrick

Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't…

— Isobelle Carmody

Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of…

— Havelock Ellis

I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that…

— David Brin

I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made…

— Simon Jenkins

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

— Walter Brueggemann

I don't see anything wrong in playing a non-fiction character.

— Mohnish Bahl

“Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.”

— Mal Peet

“Notation on Quark Manipulation as Applied to the Time/Space Continuum.”

— Gabriel F.W. Koch

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

— Paul Theroux

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

— Jean M. Auel

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.

— Alastair Reynolds

“Fears can be a healthy thing, they give you something to conquer”

— Anonymous

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

— James Gunn

“The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.”

— John H. Matthews

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

— Yancy Butler

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

— Lauren Groff

The best imagination we humans painted in our minds is True Love.

— Anonymous

“I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold." (Humans)”

— Robert Emmett

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

— S. J. Perelman

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

— Charles Dudley Warner