Fiction Quotes

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.