Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

P. J. O'Rourke

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

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?

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.

Ken Follett

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

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.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Michael Sheen

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

Neil Gaiman

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

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I do love science-fiction and horror movies.

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.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

Michael Chabon

I have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don't collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it's music I actually listen to.

Michio Kaku

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Michio Kaku

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

Theodore Sturgeon

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

Theodore Sturgeon

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

Theodore Sturgeon

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

Theodore Sturgeon

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Michael Ondaatje

Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

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.

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.