Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

James Joyce

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

James Gunn

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I do love science-fiction and horror movies.

J. Courtney Sullivan

The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

Philip Roth

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

Penelope Lively

I rather like getting away from fiction.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

R. A. Salvatore

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.

Roland Emmerich

The movie is fiction, ... We'd like to keep it that way.

Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fiction to fiction,

Frederik Pohl

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.

Frederik Pohl

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.

This is a record-breaking number for a work of non-fiction,

Ron Rash

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Mira Nair

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Peter Straub

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

Lexa Doig

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Leslie Fiedler

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Len Wiseman

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Vanna Bonta

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Val McDermid

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

Susan Mitchell

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Stephen King

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Stephen King

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

Tea Obreht

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

Robert A. Heinlein

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

Rick Baker

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

Tim O'Brien

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Steven Spielberg

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

Tom Stoppard

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

Tina Turner

I was always attracted to science fiction movies