Fiction Quotes · Page 45

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

— Pat Barker

Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.

— Karin Slaughter

“The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.”

— T.L. Rese

“It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.”

— Norman Rush

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.”

— François Mauriac

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

— Sergey Brin

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

— Reynolds Price

“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river…

— Haruki Murakami

“A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and…

— Robin Schone

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever…

— Pat Barker

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way.…

— Rick Yancey

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction…

— Ron Currie Jr

Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked.…

— John Cheever

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres…

— David Brin

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I…

— Robert Reed

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series…

— Tony Kushner

“Stories become great by hacking your brain. Nothing that happens in fiction matters. The people in fiction are fictional so their triumphs…

— Cory Doctorow

“Why would anyone who is deeply satisfied with reality, with real life as it is lived, dedicate himself to something as insubstantial…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous…

— Richard Dawkins

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote…

— Jamaica Kincaid

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

— Daniel Keys Moran

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

— Ian Mckellen

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

“Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!”

— Victoria Addino

“If you did not read the book, you don't know the story.”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

“Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.”

— Ray Bradbury

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

— Laila Lalami

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

— Neal Stephenson

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

— Samuel R. Delany

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

— Heinrich Heine

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

— J. I. Packer

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

— Stuart Taylor

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

— Charles Stross

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

— James Scott Bell

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

— Diablo Cody