Fiction Quotes · Page 79

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

— Matt Groening

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

— Mark Haddon

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

— Sefi Atta

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

— Charles Stross

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

— Stuart Taylor

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

— James Scott Bell

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

— Diablo Cody

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our…

— Pawan Mishra

“Science fiction is more than just our collective dreams for a human race that reaches to the stars. In many ways, the…

— George Takei

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in…

— Liu Cixin

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character…

— Quentin Tarantino

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and…

— Jess Walter

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives…

— Isabel Allende

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As…

— Brian Lumley

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written…

— Charles Stross

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science…

— William Gibson

Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps…

— Philip K. Jason

With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create…

— Mano Khalil

If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -…

— Michael Uslan

“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic…

— Brandon Sanderson

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station…

— Michael Ondaatje

“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And…

— T.C. Boyle

Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

— J. I. Packer

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

— Samuel R. Delany

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Heinrich Heine

“Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!”

— Victoria Addino

“If you did not read the book, you don't know the story.”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

— Laila Lalami

“Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.”

— Ray Bradbury

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

— Theodore Sturgeon

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

— Sergey Brin

“It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.”

— François Mauriac

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

— Emily Gould

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

— Ian Mckellen

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

— Daniel Keys Moran

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

— Reynolds Price