Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth
It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.
Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.
We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...
The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.
Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.
I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Dedicated to helping you create strong, vibrant, and beautiful fiction
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.