Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Walker Percy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

Walker Percy

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Salman Rushdie

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

William H. Gass

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

Raymond Queneau

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Vin Diesel

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

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.

Jeff Goldblum

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

Emma Caulfield

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

Eudora Welty

Human life is fiction's only theme.

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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke...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.

Frederik Pohl

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Frederik Pohl

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

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.

Frederick Buechner

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Fernando Pessoa

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

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...

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Flannery O'Connor

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

Flannery O'Connor

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

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