Fiction Quotes · Page 67

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

— Paul Bloom

Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

— Claire Tomalin

Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world.

— Robert Picardo

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.”

— Mary Deal

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

— John Grisham

Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful…

— Sam Lipsyte

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most…

— Raymond Carver

Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding…

— Ben Lerner

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write…

— Kiran Desai

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that…

— Michael Scott

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into…

— Julian Barnes

“There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to…

— Donald Barthelme

The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is…

— Galileo Galilei

“Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment...But it's hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a…

— Nick Antosca

Reality and fiction are really mixed up. The frontier between reality and fiction is tremendously porous and slippery. And in fact, when…

— Rosa Montero

“Dreams only come true if you point yourself in their direction”

— Tina Reber

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

— Jeanette Winterson

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

— Philip Roth

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

— Susan Sontag

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

— William Poundstone

“I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

— Jen Lancaster

“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”

— Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

“The art that speaks [truth] most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.”

— Eudora Welty

“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live”

— Michael G. Kramer

“Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.”

— Paul Theroux

“The girl I’d been just an hour ago was gone; she’d been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.”

— Amy Hatvany

“That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.”

— Ray Bradbury

Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings

— Anonymous

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

— Bonnie Hammer