Quotes about fiction
fiction life-is absurd
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd. Peter Mullan
fiction-and-nonfiction telling-the-truth constraints
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. Peter Matthiessen
fiction science-fiction women-in-science
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. Joanna Russ
fiction conflict versus
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. Leo Tolstoy
fiction peculiar life-is
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. Mira Nair
fiction want entity
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. Peter Straub
fiction crime crime-fiction
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction. Harlan Coben
fiction-writers visible universe
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. Gustave Flaubert
fiction debate science-fiction
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate. Greg Bear
fiction facts nineteenth-century
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century. Gilbert K. Chesterton
fiction literature world
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
fiction subjects
There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction. John le Carre
fiction fiction-writers credible
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
fiction literature twists
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. Katharine Kerr
fiction-stories guy sound
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.... Lembit Opik
fiction lines dividing
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction. John Kenneth Galbraith
fiction plot economics
In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.
fiction grew apocalyptic
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction. Justin Cronin
fiction my-favorite all-time
Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time. Paul Pierce
fiction isolation protect
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic. Paul Bowles
fiction comedy science-fiction
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix. Matt Groening
fiction reason-why worried
With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.
fiction courses
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. Paul Auster
fiction stories world
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on. Jodi Picoult
fiction belief moral
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. P. D. James
fiction autobiography courses
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
fiction stranger truth-is
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction. Mark Twain
fiction requirements reason-why
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
fiction science-fiction
I've always been interested in science fiction Martin Landau
fiction adequate demand
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". R. D. Laing
fiction veils liquor
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. Poppy Z. Brite
fiction science-fiction planets
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. Margaret Atwood
fiction sci-fi
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.