Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Edith Wharton

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

Phil Klay

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

We're starting to look at the moon as a source of fuel. Maybe it's science fiction right now, but we need to start moving in that direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

Ben Browder

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

Karan Johar

I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

Jane Austen

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Arthur C. Clarke

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Arundhati Roy

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

Dean Koontz

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

Alan Lightman

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Edward P. Jones

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Tahmoh Penikett

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Brent Spiner

I don't read fiction at all.

Brit Marling

Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

Brian Michael Bendis

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.

Ben Marcus

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

Brian Aldiss

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Lois Lowry

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

Charles Bukowski

Fiction is an improvement on life

Anita Diament

When I turned 40, I wanted to do something different. Fiction offered a different challenge. It uses a different side of the brain.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

Anna Torv

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Anna Torv

I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual

Anna Torv

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Allen Ginsberg

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Doris Lessing

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Doris Lessing

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record,

Cory Doctorow

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.