Fiction Quotes
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I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.
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As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
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I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
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Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.
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The truer the facts the better the fiction.
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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
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Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.
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A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
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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.
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
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Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.
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Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.
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I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history books, go to the fiction. Fiction is not fiction. It is the substance and heartbeat of a people's life, here, now, and in the past.
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Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.
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I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.
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By all the rules of modern fiction there should have been gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust. Dead men should have fallen and been trampled... Nothing of this sort happened.
