Fiction Quotes · Page 81

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

— Michael Dirda

The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

— Richard Dawkins

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

— Mary H.K. Choi

“I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back.”

— Kristine Cuevas

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

— John L'Heureux

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

— Etgar Keret

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two…

— Sarah Sutton

A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and…

— Antony Beevor

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.…

— David S. Goyer

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

— Roger Deakins

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of…

— Francois Jacob

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and…

— Ben H. Winters

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

— Lucy Walker

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.…

— Stephen King

“She was disappointed in herself for being the typical girl. She never wants to be that girl. That girl…is an emotional wreck.…

— Iesha S. Walker

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader…

— Arti Honrao

Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just…

— J.H. Wyman

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew…

— K. Ritz

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the…

— Ray Kurzweil

In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Darla shook her head, a small smirk on her lips. “You’re such a mom,” she told Katherine. Katherine stared at her, puzzled.…

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration…

— John Dufresne

“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.”

— Harry Truman

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”

— Max Nowaz

“With out freedom nothing has value, Free agency is the only true key to happiness.”

— M.H. DuMond

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

— Anita Brookner

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

— Varley O'Connor

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

— Robert Reed

“If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine.”

— William Meikle

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

— Jeff VanderMeer

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

— Lawrence Block

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

— William Gibson

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

— Neil Gaiman

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

— Trey Gowdy