Fiction Quotes · Page 77

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

— Lorin Stein

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

— Frederik Pohl

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

— J. B. Priestley

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

— Frederic Bastiat

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

— Augusten Burroughs

“science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.”

— Judith B. Kerman

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

— Bonnie Friedman

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

— Tony Visconti

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be…

— Michio Kaku

“Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.”

— Brook Tesla

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

— Roberto Benigni

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and…

— Penelope Lively

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably…

— J. G. Ballard

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had…

— Ruth Glick

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is…

— Jim Rohn

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but…

— Kingsley Amis

“Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘not true,’ because they see…

— Margaret Atwood

I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and…

— Melanie Benjamin

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at…

— Henry Rollins

“If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery,” he informed, his tone steady and…

— Laura Kreitzer

“I beam back at her. Fuck the surgery, fuck the kids, fuck the men in our lives or no longer in our…

— Claudia Putnam

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard…

— Kate Atkinson

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior,…

— John Waters

Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.

— Arundhati Roy

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition.

— Jo Beverley

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

— L. Ron Hubbard

No one stays true. It's like an addiction cuz ain't no one real...it's all fiction.

— Anonymous

“I have to be more than a passenger this time, I have to be a rider." - Flying Change”

— G.G. Collins

“Raindrops are nothing more than a lullaby for the restless soul.”

— Erin Forbes

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

— Frederik Pohl

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

— Heather O'Neill

That's the saddest part about fiction shows. If one show works, there would be six other made on similar lines.

— Mandira Bedi

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

— John Irving

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

— Michael Boatman

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

— J. Michael Straczynski

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction..

— Glenn Hoddle

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

— Matt Reeves

“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.”

— Gurnam Singh Sodhi