Fiction Quotes

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.

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.

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.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.