Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Joyce

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

James Gunn

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

J. Courtney Sullivan

The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

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.

Orson Scott Card

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Stephen King

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Stephen King

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

Tea Obreht

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

William Faulkner

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Kazinsky

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

Rob Morrow

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Rebecca Mader

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

Rod Serling

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Wallace Stevens

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

Wilkie Collins

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Will Self

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

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.

Joseph Kosinski

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

Joseph Boyden

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

Terry Pratchett

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.