Fiction Quotes · Page 77

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

— Matt Reeves

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

— Aaron Stanford

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

— Joss Whedon

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

— Nicholas Sparks

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

— Robert J. Sawyer

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

— Lani Tupu

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

— John Dufresne

“Never trust anything a fiction writer says about himself.”

— Stephen King

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science…

— Frederik Pohl

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is…

— Jonathan Swift

“There'd always been an understanding between Havemercy and me; that we'd kill any man who came between us. I was holding up…

— Jaida Jones

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always…

— Barbara Tuchman

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the…

— Henry James

“But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If…

— David Eddings

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to…

— Winston Churchill

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I…

— R. L. Stine

You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well,…

— Janeane Garofalo

“I think I found your vampire,” Andrew said, except this time he wasn’t so amused. However, Gabriella was, her smile huge as…

— Laura Kreitzer

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the…

— Iain Banks

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these…

— Brion Gysin

“Father and the child were no longer speaking, but they sat together in silence. The child was at his feet, and he…

— Carmen Dominique Taxer

“It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a…

— Richard Ford

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman…

— Cynthia Ozick

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.

— Megan Abbott

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

— John Hodgman

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

— Matt Haig

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

— Keren Ann

“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.”

— Aldous Huxley

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

— Colum McCann

I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be.

— Adam Silvera

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

— Herman Melville

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

— Diane Arbus

“I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.”

— Erica Sehyun Song

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

— Jonah Lehrer

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

— Lorrie Moore

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

— Frederic Bastiat

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

— Frederik Pohl