Fiction Quotes

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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction,… — Isaac Asimov
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on… — Margaret Atwood
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that… — Margaret Atwood
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction;… — Margaret Atwood
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it. — Diane Ackerman
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. — Francis Bacon
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one… — Nicholson Baker
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. — Rick Baker
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and… — David Baldacci
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard

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