Fiction Quotes · Page 52

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

“A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.”

— Mark Rubinstein

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

— Roddy Doyle

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

— Diana Gabaldon

“I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.”

— Erica Sehyun Song

“The beer gave Penn a headache immediately; she blinked like a mermaid struck by sunshine.”

— Genie Frisbee

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

— Christopher Fry

I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want…

— Spike Lee

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

— Antony Beevor

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic…

— Max Nowaz

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would…

— Caleb Carr

“I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

— Alvin Toffler

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing…

— Robert Coover

“Thus "good science fiction" is a value term, not an objective thing, and yet, I think, there really is such a thing,…

— Anonymous

Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction.…

— Peter David

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.…

— Tahereh Mafi

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and…

— Ray Bradbury

I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so…

— John Hurt

One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and…

— Nick Earls

“Jesus, I wonder if that sound was our listening receiver falling to the floor.”

— Karl Braungart

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

— Sara Sheridan

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at…

— Jenny Han

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

— Sophie Hannah

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

— Leos Carax

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

— Katee Sackhoff

“There are only two things in life,' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.”

— Mark Zero

I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love.

— Twinkle Khanna

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Anonymous

“The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.”

— C.G. Rousing

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.”

— J.G. Ballard

Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it.

— Nicola Coughlan

“On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.”

— Azin Sametipour