Fiction Quotes

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.