Fiction Quotes · Page 70

“Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.”

— Nikolas Lee

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

— Alfred de Vigny

“Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice.”

— Nikhil Sharda

The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

— Charles Bock

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

— Tom DeLonge

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

— Herman Wouk

“Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.”

— John Brockman

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that…

— Jerry Pournelle

There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people…

— Hari Kunzru

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word…

— Steve Earle

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than…

— Salman Rushdie

“This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.”

— Mark Zero

“Suddenly, a voice called from the darkness. Taylor leapt like a salmon, then became rooted to the spot like a tin of…

— Mark Jackman

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit…

— Brit Marling

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention…

— Dean Koontz

All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them.…

— Naomi Novik

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was…

— Kem Nunn

“You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard…

— Neil Gaiman

“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a…

— Haruki Murakami

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems…

— Ray Bradbury

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using…

— Neil Gaiman

“I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even…

— Daniel Amory

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

— Dirk Benedict

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

— Anonymous

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

— E. Nesbit

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

— Heinrich Heine

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

— Stanley Bing

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

— William Gibson

You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.

— Alice Mattison

“It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.”

— Jeanette Winterson

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands…

— John Darnielle

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

— Joss Whedon

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

— Steven Spielberg