Books Quote by Philip K Dick

“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.”

— Adam Roberts

“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it”

— Barry A. Whittingham

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in,…

— William Gibson

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz

“science fiction is literary fiction with the lid blown off”

— Robin Winter

“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they can-out of…

— Peter Mendelsund

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

Fiction is a branch of neurology

— J. G. Ballard

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

Fiction creating reality.

— Paul Auster