Fiction Quotes
2465 quotes by 1427 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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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
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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
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
— Dan Aykroyd
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
— Francis Bacon
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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
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I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
— Rick Baker
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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
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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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