Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Scott Adsit

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

Sherman Alexie

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

John Dos Passos

It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.

John Gardner

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

John Fowles

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

Leo Tolstoy

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

John le Carre

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

John le Carre

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

Joanna Russ

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

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....

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.

Gayle Forman

Every fiction has its base in fact.

Malcolm Cowley

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

Justin Cronin

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

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.