Fiction Quotes · Page 86

“Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.”

— J.G. Ballard

“On the misty window of her room, she let her finger trace a broken line. She was that line.”

— Azin Sametipour

Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it.

— Nicola Coughlan

One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

— Michael Connelly

“Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”

— Tom Hillman

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

— Katee Sackhoff

I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love.

— Twinkle Khanna

“There are only two things in life,' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.”

— Mark Zero

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is…

— Ray Bradbury

I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people…

— Tananarive Due

“A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not…

— Theodore Sturgeon

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity…

— Courtney A. Kemp

One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as…

— Thomas M. Disch

Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked.…

— John Cheever

“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell…

— Tom Perrotta

“I‘ve always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive powers were the least important or least relevant…

— Jonathan Lethem

With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have…

— Dave Barry

Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my…

— Christian Cooke

My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for…

— Philip Schultz

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate…

— Richard Schickel

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most…

— Anais Nin

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling.…

— Lauren Groff

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Anonymous

“The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.”

— C.G. Rousing

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

— Leos Carax

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at…

— Jenny Han

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

— Sophie Hannah

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Jesus, I wonder if that sound was our listening receiver falling to the floor.”

— Karl Braungart

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

— Paul Auster

Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

— Lisa Unger

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

— Jeanne Moreau

“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe”

— Holly Black

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

— Konnie Huq

“There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.”

— Krisi Keley

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

— Alexander McCall Smith