Fiction Quotes

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.