Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Amanda Schull

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

Alvin Toffler

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

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.

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.

Alfred Hitchcock

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

Anthony Burgess

All novels are experimental.

Shaun Cassidy

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

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.

Tim O'Brien

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

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

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.

Annie Baker

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

Alan Furst

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

Abraham Verghese

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

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.

Brannon Braga

We wanted the science fiction to be accessible, that it not be like 'Star Trek,' that it not be technical, and everything has to be explained. We wanted it to be much scarier in the way it's presented.

Frederic Raphael

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer