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Fiction Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll…
- The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.
- There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the…
- I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the…
- All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
- We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity,…
- Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
- Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
- We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have…
- Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
- It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons,…
More Fiction Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Kate Atkinson
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — 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… — 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… — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood