Fiction Quotes · Page 80

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

— Jeff Bridges

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

— Will Smith

“I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

— Moby

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

— Jonathan Larson

I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

— Gaby Hoffmann

“That's science fiction shit," "It's only fiction until science catches up.”

— J D Robb Fantasy in Death

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

— Russell Smith

“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s…

— Cole Alpaugh

“I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever…

— Chelsea Vanderbeek

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems…

— Robin Wasserman

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do…

— Flannery O'Connor

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

— Rudyard Kipling

“How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how…

— Stephanie Vaughn

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when…

— Stephen Graham Jones

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a…

— Roald Dahl

The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade…

— Henry Rollins

To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and…

— Jack Handey

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And…

— Conor Oberst

All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the…

— Titus Kaphar

'Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end…

— Scott Turow

One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and…

— Alexander Weinstein

“I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of…

— David Cook

“Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.”

— Gene Wolfe

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

— Paul Auster

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

— William Gibson

I love science fiction just because of the scope of what it can be.

— Eoin Macken

“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.”

— Shannon Alder

I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality.

— Martin Cooper

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

— Joss Whedon

Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

— Michael Ondaatje

“All humans are insane, they exists because insanity exists.”

— Prakhar Bansal

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris

“Discomfiture is the scourge for a sound sleep, whereas, bliss is its chum." from-I Know You Now.”

— Sushant Changotra

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

— Rick Bass

Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

— Jerry Pournelle