Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers
Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.
Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.
I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.
It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.