Fiction Quotes · Page 36

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

— Michael Dirda

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

— Eoin Macken

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

— William Gibson

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

— Shannon Alder

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

— Chang-Rae Lee

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

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

— Joss Whedon

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus…

— Charles Stross

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was…

— Robbie Robertson

Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the…

— Toni Blake

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel.…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

— Bill Kovach

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have…

— Daniel Tammet

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

— Elizabeth Moon

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is…

— James Joyce

The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters…

— Jaime Murray

In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting…

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

“Have you chosen your new name?” “I have a notion. How about you?” “I’m thinking on it but I haven’t settled. Tell…

— Jabari Asim

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't…

— William H. Gass

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically…

— William Gibson

Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too…

— Jane Espenson

Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen…

— Arthur Bradford

There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Martin Cooper

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

— David Leavitt

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

— Irwin Shaw

“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

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

— Paul Auster

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

— Gene Wolfe

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

— Shannon A. Thompson

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

— Will Smith

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

— Gaby Hoffmann

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

— Jonathan Larson

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

— Moby

Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill.

— David Brin

“All lives are interesting.One of the tasks of fiction, is to prove it.”

— A.D. Miller

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

— Sheila Heti