Fiction Quotes · Page 86

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

— Ronald D. Moore

“Grief is like an ocean. It comes in waves - some waves are bigger than others and you cannot prepare for it.”

— Summer Lane

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

— Jeaniene Frost

“I stomp back to my room. Queen Titania is not marrying Prince Holden.”

— Tricia Copeland

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

— Julian Barnes

“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.”

— Amaya Ellman

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set…

— Jeremy Bulloch

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short…

— Tom Paulin

“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a…

— Yvonne Coleman

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more…

— Joe Morton

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with…

— Daphne du Maurier

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that…

— Hooman Majd

There's a market for fiction based on financial services. People wanted me to write stories based on this sector. There's a gap…

— Ravi Subramanian

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because…

— Katee Sackhoff

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks…

— David Nicholls

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and…

— Neil Gaiman

My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,…

— Laurence Sterne

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths…

— George Bernard Shaw

“He had panicked. Tessier cursed his own stupidity. He should have remained in the column where he would have been protected. Instead,…

— David Cook

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that…

— Mark Zuckerberg

The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot…

— Alexander MacLaren

“It doesn’t matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears.”

— Gerry Stewart

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

— Julian Barnes

“In life, wisdom usually came with age, but death offered another world.”

— Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Mystery fiction was considered a stepchild of literature.

— Evan Hunter

“Who needed facts when fiction was so much more titillating?”

— Dee Tenorio

“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”

— T. Scott McLeod

“You cannot be free if you are contained within a fiction.”

— Julian Beck

“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.”

— Y.K. Raikou

“Good night, and may your nights always be bright with stars!”

— Deva Fagan

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

— Amy Lowell

“Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.”

— Evan Meekins

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.

— Anonymous

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

“We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

— Lauren Oliver

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

— Michio Kaku