Quotes about fiction
fiction
The movie is fiction, ... We'd like to keep it that way. Roland Emmerich
fiction mainstream novels science ugly
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on. R. A. Salvatore
fiction machine mind open science sit
The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through. Frederik Pohl
fiction notice people science work
A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.
fiction number work
This is a record-breaking number for a work of non-fiction,
fiction fables facts
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges... Herman Melville
fiction television mystery
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it. Jill Scott
fiction life-is human-life
Human life is fiction's only theme. Eudora Welty
fiction mystery human-life
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. Flannery O'Connor
fiction garbage subway
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
fiction-stories might science-fiction
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told. Jamais Cascio
fiction emotion study
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. Isaac Asimov
fiction literature faces
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.
fiction lifetime expect-nothing
God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.
fiction deeds doers
The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything. Friedrich Nietzsche
fiction world ends
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system. Gary Shteyngart
fiction hell intense
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.
fiction non-fiction
I tend to read non-fiction. Gary Oldman
fiction fantasy mystery
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. George R. R. Martin
fiction theology
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical. Frederick Buechner
fiction tedium company
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. Fernando Pessoa
fiction elements literature
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. Fay Weldon
fiction arbitrary bigs
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... Farley Mowat
fiction film enough
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. Jeff Vandermeer
fiction noir contemporary
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. Jeff Goldblum
fiction fabric done
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research. Iain Banks
fiction literature different
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
fiction dissection method
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
fiction-stories jam able
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
fiction represent science
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building. M. John Harrison
fiction seemed strength summer trend
Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fiction to fiction,
fiction love science star stations technology
These stations look like something out of Star Trek, and I know because I love Star Trek. Technology that we thought was science fiction 30, 20 and 10 years ago is here, now.
fictional fun man people pride small specific town wore
The story could be set in some fictional place, but it wasn't. They made it personal. They plopped it down in a specific place. People in a small town take a lot of pride in who they are, and that's not who they are. This isn't New York. And then set it in 1963, right? In 1963, they'd make fun of a man if he wore shorts.