Fiction Quotes · Page 38

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

— Francis Bacon

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

— Don Hertzfeldt

I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea.

— Zach McGowan

“Most girls celebrate their birthdays with friends. I spent mine with a pack of wolves.”

— Ruth Emmie Lang

“My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed.

— Kia Carrington-Russell

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

— Denise Mina

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

— Raymond Queneau

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

— Uwem Akpan

I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're…

— Joy Fielding

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as…

— Robert Kazinsky

“If you have people do some magic, impossible thing by stroking a talisman or praying to a tree, it's fantasy; if they…

— Orson Scott Card

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to…

— Peggy Whitson

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring…

— Jennifer Egan

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look…

— Percy Lubbock

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant…

— Ian Mcewan

“It didn’t belong to anything and nothing belonged to it. It searched for eternities trying to find a host… a carrier… a…

— E.C. Lemus

“Vincent knew he was dying. A horrendous fever overwhelmed him with intolerable pain throughout many sleepless hours. It came as a result…

— Don Luis Zavala

One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe…

— Isabelle Huppert

“How come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why can’t…

— Richelle Mead

I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows…

— J. Michael Straczynski

“One is almost tempted to say... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond…

— Charles Coulson

The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any…

— Anonymous

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a…

— Jaron Lanier

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

— Dan Simmons

“What is the difference between a dream and its memory?”

— Sukanya Venkatraghavan

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

— Neil Gaiman

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

— Trey Gowdy

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

— Norman Spinrad

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

— William Gibson

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

— Lawrence Block

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

— Walter Wangerin

“I feel like the Earth has cracked open and swallowed me into a bottomless abyss.”

— March Lions

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

— Octavia E. Butler

“War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.”

— Evan Meekins

“We’re both as tall as most men here in 1801, so we can make it work.”

— Steven Decker

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

— Michael Sheen

“The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...”

— Michael K. Bialys

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

— Simone Weil