Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heinrich Heine

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Hilary Mantel

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

Henry Jenkins

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Katee Sackhoff

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

Katharine Kerr

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Lembit Opik

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....

Harlan Coben

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

Gustave Flaubert

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Greg Bear

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Gayle Forman

Every fiction has its base in fact.

Greg Cox

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

Glenn Hoddle

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction..

Eudora Welty

Human life is fiction's only theme.

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.

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.

Emma Caulfield

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

Jen Lancaster

I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

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.

Ray Bradbury

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Ray Bradbury

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Ray Bradbury

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Scott Adsit

In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.

Sherman Alexie

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

Jodi Picoult

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.

P. D. James

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

P. D. James

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.