Fiction Quotes · Page 60

“science fiction is literary fiction with the lid blown off”

— Robin Winter

“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

— Norman Mailer

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

— Mark Twain

“She made him smile, and it was enough… to make him feel real in a world full of fiction.”

— A.M. Johnson

“To me, fiction is a fast-track to the sort of truth with which facts interfere.”

— Sarah Terez Rosenblum

“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.”

— Lauren Slater

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction…

— Tom Robinson

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no…

— Anonymous

“She snorted in amusement at my remark. “When are the guards going to start to notice?” Keith peered into the distance. “Starting…

— Erica Sehyun Song

I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor.…

— Karen Russell

If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are…

— David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence…

— Ellen Hopkins

“I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters…

— Nicholas Trandahl

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained,…

— Mohsin Hamid

Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of…

— Irving Howe

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of…

— David Brin

Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of…

— Michio Kaku

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like…

— Neill Blomkamp

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is…

— Theodor Adorno

I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take…

— Remi Aubuchon

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you.…

— Paul Auster

“I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

— Jill Ker Conway

“Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“What might sound like science fiction elsewhere in the world at DARPA was future science.”

— Annie Jacobsen

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

— Stephen King

“[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.”

— Amitav Ghosh

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

— Jules de Goncourt

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

— Graham Greene

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

— Ethan Canin

“Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.”

— Genie Frisbee

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Denise Mina

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

— Kia Carrington-Russell

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