Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. John Harrison

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

Orson Scott Card

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Philip Levine

When I started writing, I wanted to be a fiction writer. I wanted to be a novelist.

Candace Bushnell

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

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.

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.

Tim O'Brien

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

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.

Dan Brown

As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts..

David Frum

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

David Foster Wallace

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

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.

Jamie Clayton

I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.

James Altucher

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

Paolo Bacigalupi

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Bharati Mukherjee

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

It's interesting that 10 or 15 years ago this was science fiction.

Martin Amis

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

Martin Amis

I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

Martin Amis

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Martin Amis

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

Peter Mullan

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

Peter Matthiessen

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

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.