Fiction Quotes
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
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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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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.
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I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.
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I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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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.
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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
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I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.
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I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!
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In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.
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Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.
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I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.
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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
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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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When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
