Fiction Quotes

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.