Fiction Quotes · Page 42

“There are two rules for success... 1. Never reveal everything you know.”

— Ylond Miles-Davis

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.

— Alice Mattison

“Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.”

— Aly Grady

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like,…

— Henry Rollins

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

— Peter Morgan

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

— Celeste Ng

“a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.”

— Evan Meekins

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

“Dies iral, dies illa Solvet Saeclum in Favilla Teste David cum Silylla That Day of Wrath, that day of burning Seer and…

— Anonymous

The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is…

— Philip Jose Farmer

For one thing, you have the opportunity in science fiction shows to do things with stories - address issues and ideas -…

— Tim Russ

“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make…

— Nicole Christie

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

“I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can’t I received the same feeling in return?”…

— Khalia Hades

“If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement.…

— J. Rose Black

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much…

— Charles de Lint

I think the sci-fi world allows for exploration of that that isn't on the nose and that isn't preachy, but it's kind…

— Tatiana Maslany

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in…

— Zadie Smith

For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are…

— Philip Kitcher

Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the…

— James Berardinelli

“I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I…

— Brian K. Friesen

It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a…

— Rajneesh

I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of…

— Tod Papageorge

Once upon a time the earth might till get back to it voldid!

— D Brown

“Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

— Lupe Fiasco

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

— Tig Notaro

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

— Jeanette Winterson

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

— Megan Chance

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

— John Banville

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

— Tom Clancy

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

— William Gibson

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

— Taylor Swift

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

— Francine Rivers

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun…

— Swami Vivekananda

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

— Chris Carter

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

— Alvin Toffler