Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cary Fukunaga

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Andrea Barrett

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

Colson Whitehead

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

Colum McCann

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

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

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

John Irving

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

Bernard Werber

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

David Gerrold

The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.

David Gerrold

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

Ray Bradbury

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

This shows the president is more interested in science fiction than science.

We run into science fiction pretty quickly. Those guys get there before we do and then we have to go do it.

Robert Morgan

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Orson Scott Card

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Kurt Vonnegut

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

Frederic Raphael

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

Tim O'Brien

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Peter Morgan

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Ruth Ozeki

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Stacy Keach

Papa Darth. Well, I don't know if Ken is technologically inclined. I suspect not. I don't know if science fiction would be his interest.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

E. M. Forster

A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.

Don DeLillo

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

Don DeLillo

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

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.