Fiction Quotes

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.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

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.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.