Fiction Quotes

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.