Books Quote by Paul Di Filippo

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

— Paul Di Filippo

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

— Veronica Roth

“Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction.”

— Michael Wall

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Humanity lives in its fiction.

— Blaise Cendrars

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to…

— Sarah Caudwell

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

— Arundhati Roy

“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas…

— Bret Lott