Fiction Quotes
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
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Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
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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 think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
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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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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
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It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
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In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.
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Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
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There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
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I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.
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If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
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I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
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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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The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
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In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
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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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There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
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I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
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The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet it is a metaphor.
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
