Fiction Quotes · Page 59

Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point.

— James Wan

“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.”

— Anonymous

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

— Piers Anthony

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

— Kathy Acker

“...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.”

— Michael Crichton

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

— Ridley Scott

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

— Neil Gaiman

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that…

— Jennifer Egan

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in…

— Sara Zarr

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction…

— Ellen Hopkins

Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing…

— Norman Lock

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and…

— Anonymous

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any…

— George MacDonald

There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them…

— Stephen H. Segal

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants…

— Sarah Zettel

“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses…

— Lionel Shriver

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know…

— Tess Gerritsen

In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And…

— Tamlyn Tomita

“I have never battled a gargoyle before.” Zacharel shook his head, a dark lock of hair tumbling into one emerald eye. Damp…

— Gena Showalter

“Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid…

— H.P. Lovecraft

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence…

— Benicio Del Toro

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

— Colson Whitehead

“Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality.”

— Anne Stirling Hastings Ph. D

“Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.”

— Arundhati Roy

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast, it’s no good living in the fucking past.”

— Mark Jackman

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

— Blake Bailey

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

— Robert James Waller

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

— Ben Marcus

“If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”

— K. Ritz

“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them”

— Justyn Simon

“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.”

— Adam Roberts

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

— Rian Johnson

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

— Dale Peck

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

— Joan Robinson

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

— Anonymous

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

— George Pelecanos