Fiction Quotes · Page 37

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

— George R. R. Martin

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

— Richard Hatch

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

— Ronald Sukenick

“This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.”

— Ryan S. Fortney

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

— Tom Clancy

“Philippe to his mother "do stop chasing after a carriage that has a runaway mare.”

— E.L.R. Jones

I think all fiction should be fair game for the Christian market, except porn, of course.

— Anonymous

“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.”

— Amanda Lovelace

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain…

— Zadie Smith

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction…

— Alastair Reynolds

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

— Colum McCann

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having…

— Meg Cabot

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

— Ken MacLeod

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology…

— Alaina Huffman

“Silver constellations sparkled across the velvet sky, revealing the mythical creatures that lingered in the valley of stars.”

— Erin Forbes

“Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and…

— Anonymous

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.…

— Roxane Gay

“Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, “Nora, I’m not attempting to embarrass you or single you out. I…

— Lia Habel

[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style…

— Stanley Tucci

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are…

— Brian Stableford

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In…

— Robert Jordan

Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way…

— Tash Aw

“In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in…

— Ayn Rand

“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A…

— Leïla Slimani

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

— Anonymous

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

— Mary Augusta Ward

“Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“… a stunning finale … Fans of smart, philosophical science fiction will want to check this out.”

— Anonymous

Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

— Roxane Gay

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

— Peter Matthiessen

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

— Kevin Macdonald

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

— Frederic Raphael

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?”

— Ryan Goodrich

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

— Peter Mullan

“The arrow's away and you're pulling the second before the first hits its mark”

— Jennifer M Zeiger

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

— Paul Auster