Fiction Quotes
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Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.
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In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.
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The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.
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Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
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Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
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Good fiction creates its own reality.
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Whenever you bring reality TV into the mix, it's only a matter of time before, whatever fiction you come up with, it'll become real.
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You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.
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In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
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Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.
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The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
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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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After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
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I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.
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In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
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Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.
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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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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Science fiction is a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.
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Yeah, it’s really great. I mean, the clonesbians—you know, I have to say, I feel sometimes that fiction can reflect reality and sometimes even affect it. And I’m really proud to play a gay character whose main problem is not that she’s gay, which it shouldn’t be for anyone. So, I’m really proud of that.
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In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.
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Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.
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There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.
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Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
