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That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.
Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.