Fiction Quotes
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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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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.
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If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
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Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
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There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.
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The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
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All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.
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Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
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Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.
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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
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To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
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I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional.
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Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
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The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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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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I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
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Statistics Fiction in its most uninteresting form.
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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.
