Fiction Quote by Theodore Sturgeon Download Open image “In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.” — Theodore Sturgeon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Reality Science Science fiction Tests
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience. — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them. — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image
The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die, — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is… — Nicola Chiaromonte Copy Share Image
Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To… — Claude Cahun Copy Share Image
I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm a science-fiction fan. All science fiction ends up being reality. — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“She was perhaps seventeen when it happened. She was in Central Park, in New York. It was too warm for such an early spring day, and the hammered brown slopes had a dusting of green of precisely the consistency of that morning's hoarfrost on the rocks. But the frost was gone and the grass was brave and tempted some hundreds… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
“Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell, that drained and left him weak. And he himself was the object of it. For hadn’t he known? Hadn’t he taken a name for himself, knowing that the name was a crystallization of all he had… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
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 mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
