Fiction Quotes
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I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.
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I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
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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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I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
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Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
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When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.
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Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.
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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
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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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Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
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As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
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It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.
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The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
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When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
