Fiction Quotes · Page 61

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

— Blake Bailey

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

— Neil Gaiman

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

— Colson Whitehead

In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

— E. L. Doctorow

If the world would fall apart in a fiction-worthy wind, I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.

— Brandon Boyd

“When written correctly, science fiction is science prophecy.”

— Shawn Stern

“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

— Amiri Baraka

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

— David Levithan

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

— Ray Bradbury

“I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.”

— Scott Westerfeld

“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly…

— Victor Hugo

“But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the…

— Lorrie Moore

“As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd…

— Colleen Houck

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence…

— Natalie Portman

The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people…

— Paul Bloom

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents…

— Sharon Creech

“By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not…

— Marlene van Niekerk

In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of…

— David Foster Wallace

“You remember?' he said incredulously. 'What could you possibly remember?' he asked, staring at her, waiting for the answer. The beauty from…

— Sebastian Cole

“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the…

— Max Nowaz

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

— Brian Aldiss

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

— Javed Jaffrey

“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

— John Banville

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

— Martin McDonagh

“The most profound questions are best explored through fiction.”

— Paul Kieniewicz

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

— Edward M. Lerner

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”

— Sara Pascoe

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

— A. E. van Vogt

“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.”

— Cao Xueqin

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

— Susan Sontag

“Life is not a matter of fact. What is fact or fiction is a matter of perspective.”

— Anonymous

“I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

— Joan D. Vinge

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Peter loved to hear the story of how his father tried to steal the sun. ”

— Douglas Weissman