Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teresa Medeiros

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Peter Straub

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

Joseph Kosinski

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

Joseph Boyden

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

Roger Corman

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

Stephen Hawking

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Spider Robinson

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

Leo Tolstoy

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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

Tim LaHaye

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

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.

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.

Scott Turow

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

Richard Attenborough

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Raymond Carver

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

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,

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

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.

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.

It was just like an invasion in a science fiction movie.

Students who tend to read young-adult fiction are female. Most male adolescents read nonfiction.

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.

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.

Janeane Garofalo

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

Ethan Hawke

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.