Fiction Quotes

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

I love science fiction.