History is fiction.

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display…

— Siri Hustvedt

'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.

— Nina Tassler

'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever…

— Arthur C. Clarke

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on…

— Diana Gabaldon

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,…

— Trudi Canavan

There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these…

— L.A. Weatherly

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

“The fiction will seek the real.”

— Coheed and Cambria

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

— Edward Einhorn

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

— Octavia Butler

“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to”

— Phil Hogan