Fiction Quotes
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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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Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.
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Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
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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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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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When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
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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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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
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All autobiography is fiction.
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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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Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
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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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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
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Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
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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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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.
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This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
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I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like a richer place. The world is awfully short on joy and richness, and I think to some extent it’s the fiction writer’s job to salvage some of that and to give it to us in ways that we can believe in.
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Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.
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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.
