Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Leary

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Dennis Lehane

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Denise Mina

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

China Mieville

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

China Mieville

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

China Mieville

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Bill Gates

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

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.

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.

Julia Glass

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

Greg Cox

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

Glenn Hoddle

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction..

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Jen Lancaster

I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

Neil Gaiman

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Martin McDonagh

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Michael Sheen

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Michael Ondaatje

Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

Ray Bradbury

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Ray Bradbury

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Ray Bradbury

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.