All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other. — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.” — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The traditional route to success in science fiction is by making a name for yourself in short fiction, so people who read… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday,… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What were the conditions in which women lived, I asked myself; for fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Standing in front of the white picket fence, I stared at the multitude of champagne roses weaving their hunter green vines gracefully… — Leah Lozano Copy Share Image
“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now… — Theasa Tuohy Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I use Fiction to face Reality And write dark Stories in hope to brighten my Path.” — A. Mani Copy Share Image
“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.” — R.W.K. Clark Copy Share Image
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's fun to be able to invent fiction, but I like real stories, better. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
“Some times, you write fiction stories. Others, you use fiction to write your story.” — S. Usher Evans Copy Share Image
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
