Fiction Quotes

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.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

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.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.