Fiction Quotes

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.

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

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

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!