Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Clute

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

John Cheever

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

It was just like an invasion in a science fiction movie.

Paul Auster

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

Martin Landau

I've always been interested in science fiction

R. D. Laing

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Poppy Z. Brite

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Jodi Picoult

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

Ken Follett

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

Margaret Atwood

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

P. J. O'Rourke

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

Michael Crichton

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

Mark Twain

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

P. D. James

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

P. D. James

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

Paul Pierce

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.

Paul Bowles

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Matt Groening

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Matt Groening

With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

Mark Twain

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

Jonathan Coe

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Jonathan Carroll

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Katee Sackhoff

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

Terry Pratchett

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

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

Roger Corman

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

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.