Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's interesting that 10 or 15 years ago this was science fiction.

Virginia Woolf

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

M. John Harrison

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

Janeane Garofalo

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

Ethan Hawke

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

Moby

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Buzz Aldrin

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

Katherine Paterson

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Julian Barnes

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

J. Michael Straczynski

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

J. Michael Straczynski

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

J. M. Coetzee

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

J. M. Coetzee

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Ivan Reitman

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Ivan Reitman

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

H. L. Mencken

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

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.

Hugo Gernsback

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

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.

Isaac Asimov

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

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.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

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.

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.

Kathy Reichs

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.