Fiction Quotes · Page 73

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction.

— Taylor Swift

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

— Francine Rivers

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun…

— Swami Vivekananda

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

— Chris Carter

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

— William Gibson

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

— Jonathan Evison

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

— Megan Chance

As I got older, I really got into hard sci-fi, novels, and movies - things like 'Aliens' and 'Blade Runner' and all…

— Bear McCreary

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of…

— Burhan Sonmez

“He had always liked a good mess—God knows he had sure made a few. In typical form, he squared his shoulders, furrowed…

— Shelley K. Wall

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version…

— Sarah Pinborough

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate…

— Heather O'Neill

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick…

— Poppy Z. Brite

As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows…

— J. August Richards

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate…

— Hal Duncan

“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the…

— Oliver Cowdery

We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into…

— Ciro Guerra

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my…

— William Gibson

“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic…

— Brandon Sanderson

If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -…

— Michael Uslan

With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create…

— Mano Khalil

Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps…

— Philip K. Jason

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

— John Banville

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

— Tom Clancy

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

— Tig Notaro

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

— Lupe Fiasco

“Science fiction could now be made far more convincing by science fact.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.”

— Evan Meekins

Once upon a time the earth might till get back to it voldid!

— D Brown

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

— Leslie Fiedler

Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.

— Sal Khan

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

— Dwight Schultz

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

— John Cheever

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

— Don Hertzfeldt

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

— Sigourney Weaver