Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Michael Crichton

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

Mark Twain

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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.

Paul Pierce

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.

Paul Bowles

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Matt Groening

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Matt Groening

With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

Paul Auster

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

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.

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Norman Spinrad

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

Octavia Butler

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Octavia Butler

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

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.

Frederick Buechner

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Fernando Pessoa

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

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.

James Gunn

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.

Justin Cronin

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.