Fiction Quotes · Page 138

“science fiction is something that could happen—but usually you wouldn’t want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn’t happen—though often you only…

— Arthur C. Clarke

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense…

— Orson Scott Card

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from…

— Reza Aslan

These claims [about me of inappropriate conduct with women] are all fabricated. They're pure fiction and they're outright lies. These events never,…

— Donald Trump

“Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).”

— Samuel R. Delany

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

— Stephenie Meyer

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

— Iain Banks

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it…

— Junot Diaz

Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the…

— Anonymous

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The…

— Marilynne Robinson

I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes…

— Edwidge Danticat

“When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with…

— Haruki Murakami

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.…

— Lois Lowry

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him…

— Anonymous

“They say fiction is the closest we ever get to magic. Forget top hats and rabbits: open a book and an entire…

— Holly Smale

“When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate…

— Beverly S. Harless

I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make…

— John Burnham Schwartz

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

— Hilma Wolitzer

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then…

— Scott Thompson

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

— Ryan Gosling

“She looked so beautiful, with every smile of hers, I was falling for her. She had the perfect set of teeth for…

— Pritam Banikk

You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world…

— Justin Cartwright

I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all…

— Ed Speleers

I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,…

— William Monahan

“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during…

— Michael G. Kramer

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and…

— Tom Robbins

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of…

— Anonymous

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

“As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.”

— Edmund Crispin

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do…

— Simon Schama

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the…

— Mohsin Hamid

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too…

— Dana Gould

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far…

— Radclyffe Hall

“She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life…

— Alice Munro

I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked.

— Sabaa Tahir

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

— Steven Soderbergh

“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me…

— Hannah Blatchford

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

— Greig Fraser

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of…

— James D'arcy

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

— Ellen Glasgow