Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Asimov

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.

Isaac Asimov

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

Horace

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Ruth Rendell

I don't think there is a fictional character who resembles me because fictional characters are not real!

Jill McCorkle

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.

Jamais Cascio

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

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.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Julia Glass

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

Frederik Pohl

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

Michael Sheen

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I do love science-fiction and horror movies.

Neil Gaiman

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

John Clute

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

John Cheever

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

James Joyce

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

Martin McDonagh

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Philip Roth

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

Penelope Lively

I rather like getting away from fiction.

John Gardner

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

John Fowles

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

Jonathan Coe

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Jonathan Carroll

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

John le Carre

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

John le Carre

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

Joanna Russ

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

John Dos Passos

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.

Malcolm Cowley

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Heidi Julavits

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

Henry Rollins

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.