Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.
Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.
At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.
Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.
Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.