Fiction Quotes · Page 56

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

— Terry Pratchett

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

— Raymond Buckland

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

— Candace Camp

“Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?”

— Nora Roberts

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”

— Ben Monopoli

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

— Lynn Coady

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

— Orson Scott Card

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already…

— Aaron Belz

“I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished…

— Rahul Rampal

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions…

— Rex Stout

Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre…

— Lee Gutkind

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly…

— Victor Hugo

“As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd…

— Colleen Houck

“But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the…

— Lorrie Moore

“You remember?' he said incredulously. 'What could you possibly remember?' he asked, staring at her, waiting for the answer. The beauty from…

— Sebastian Cole

In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of…

— David Foster Wallace

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not…

— Marlene van Niekerk

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents…

— Sharon Creech

“By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a…

— Arundhati Roy

Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of…

— Don Pendleton

“Very few people know this about me, but I’m a sucker for a good romance. I just don’t usually believe they happen…

— Kata Čuić

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

— John M. Grunsfeld

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

— Alan Taylor

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

— Greg Egan

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

— Kelly Link

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

— H. L. Mencken

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

— Saul David

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”

— A.G. Russo

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

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

— David Grann

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

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

— Roxane Gay

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

— 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