Fiction Quotes · Page 80

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

— Julian May

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

— Elliott Colla

“A vida real não nos concede muitas possibilidades mais do que úteis que as pessoas podem ter na ficção.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“familiar with Scandinavian crime fiction – Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Karin Fossum, Håkan”

— Stieg Larsson

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

— John L'Heureux

“No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.”

— J.K. Franko

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

— Harry Turtledove

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or…

— Michael Marshall

“Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“These stories are my weapon. If I can write a book that grips someone by the heart and then opens their eyes…

— Eric N. Bentley

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

— Robert Greene

“And I feel certain that you will, because I've come to take it away. I'm from the furniture shop, and the bed…

— George Sheffield

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that…

— Karen Russell

“Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance... "The Elder Effect”

— D. L. Given

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

— Khaled Hosseini

The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.…

— Helen Humphreys

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of…

— Yann Martel

“Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only…

— Todor Bombov

Writers of historical fiction are often faced with a problem: if they include real-life people, how do they ensure that their make-believe…

— Sarah Weinman

The main difficulty is finding an idea that really excites me. We live in an age when miracles are no longer miracles,…

— Liu Cixin

I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is…

— Marge Piercy

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths. One of the themes is the overextension of credit, the nature of being…

— Forest Whitaker

“Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline…

— Gustave Flaubert

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

— Dennis Ritchie

“Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.”

— Anonymous

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction .

— A. S. Byatt

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You couldn't wake someone when his own dreams turned out better than reality.”

— Danielle Bennett

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

— Azar Nafisi

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

— Anonymous

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

“Some Marauders do do that, but not the smart ones.” Ivy giggles. “I said, doo-doo.”

— S.G. Blaise

Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them.

— Sarah Douglas

“This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink.”

— Terence Paul Winter

“I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black”

— M.C. Webb

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.”

— H L Mencken

Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go…

— Marianne Williamson

“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.”

— Oscar Wilde