Fiction Quotes · Page 41

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.

— Gerard Way

Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

— Claudia Christian

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

“Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?”

— Kresley Cole

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

— Philip K. Dick

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

— Jodi Picoult

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

— Iain Banks

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

— Rick James

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

— Denise Mina

I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever…

— Edward M. Lerner

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them…

— Marina Sirtis

“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your…

— Brandi L. Bates

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

— George R. R. Martin

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes…

— Neil Cross

“Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a…

— Haruki Murakami

I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy.…

— Anonymous

The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing…

— Joshua Ferris

I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are…

— Brad Feld

“The time of my departure is here. Place your hand gently on the soil beside my own, and feel the rumble of…

— Chuck Black

For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when…

— Brit Marling

If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;…

— Tiger Lewis

“A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing them…

— Laura Kreitzer

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

— Doris Lessing

It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate 'Pulp Fiction.'

— Christoph Waltz

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.”

— Alison Croggon

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

— Anita Diament

“Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world; that’s where truth lives.”

— Karina Szczurek

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

— James Ellroy

“The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.”

— Róbert Gál

“The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

— Scott Turow

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

— Brian Aldiss

“Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I’d even had the opportunity to sin.”

— Kristen Reed