Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moby

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Katherine Paterson

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Julian Barnes

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Ken Follett

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

J. Michael Straczynski

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

J. Michael Straczynski

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

J. M. Coetzee

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

J. M. Coetzee

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Ivan Reitman

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Ivan Reitman

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

H. L. Mencken

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Mark Twain

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Buzz Aldrin

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

Margaret Atwood

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Margaret Atwood

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

Margaret Atwood

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Martin Landau

I've always been interested in science fiction

R. D. Laing

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Poppy Z. Brite

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Jeff Goldblum

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

Iain Banks

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.

Herman Melville

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...

Jill Scott

'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.

Jeff Vandermeer

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.

Fay Weldon

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Farley Mowat

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

Gary Shteyngart

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

Gary Shteyngart

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.

Gary Oldman

I tend to read non-fiction.

George R. R. Martin

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

Hugo Gernsback

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Isaac Asimov

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.