Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Terry Pratchett

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Teresa Medeiros

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

Lexa Doig

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Leslie Fiedler

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Len Wiseman

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Ruth Glick

Nobodys life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Rowan Williams

A public is a necessary fiction.

Tina Turner

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

Tim LaHaye

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

Ron Rash

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Stephen Hawking

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Spider Robinson

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

Scott Turow

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

Robert A. Heinlein

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

Rick Baker

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

Tim O'Brien

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Steven Spielberg

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

Tom Stoppard

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

Raymond Queneau

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Veronica Roth

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

Rupert Brooke

Youth is stranger than fiction.

Vanna Bonta

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Val McDermid

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

Susan Mitchell

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Richard Attenborough

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Raymond Carver

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Roger Corman

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

William H. Gass

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

Vladimir Nabokov

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.