Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and…

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

— Tom Waits

The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a…

— Christopher Bullock

Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My…

— Tom Waits

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

— Tony Wilson

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind…

— Tom Waits

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think…

— Kyle Hill

I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality.

— Frank Vincent

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which…

— Gil Gerard

“The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!”

— Eli Of Kittim

“Life is difficult.”

— M. Scott Peck

When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else.

— Anonymous

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