Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim LaHaye

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

Rupert Brooke

Youth is stranger than fiction.

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.

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.

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.

Orson Scott Card

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Brannon Braga

We wanted the science fiction to be accessible, that it not be like 'Star Trek,' that it not be technical, and everything has to be explained. We wanted it to be much scarier in the way it's presented.

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.

Candace Bushnell

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

Philip Levine

When I started writing, I wanted to be a fiction writer. I wanted to be a novelist.

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.

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Martin Amis

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

Martin Amis

I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

Martin Amis

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Martin Amis

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

Peter Mullan

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

Peter Matthiessen

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Veronica Roth

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

Rick Moody

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Robert Kazinsky

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

Rod Serling

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Rob Morrow

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Rebecca Mader

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

Ruth Glick

Nobodys life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Rowan Williams

A public is a necessary fiction.

Wallace Stevens

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.