Fiction Quotes

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.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

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.