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Fiction Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody…
- If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the…
- Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.
- I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds…
- Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
- The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling…
- I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
- Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
- The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
- Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It…
- If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
- The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words…
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