Fiction Quotes

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

I love science fiction.

I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction,' you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.