Fiction Quotes
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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.
Simon Kinberg -
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
Steven Heighton
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Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.
Heather O'Neill -
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.
Eliza Griswold -
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.
Ray Bradbury -
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
Scott Turow -
I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
Uzodinma Iweala -
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
Steve Erickson
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil -
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
Sarah Dessen -
The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.
Alice Mattison -
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.
Andrzej Stasiuk -
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
Judith Krantz -
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.
Steven Saylor
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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.
Ridley Scott -
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.
Ray Bradbury -
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.
Thomas Hood -
If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough
Sergey Brin -
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
Terence McKenna -
Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
Gertrude Atherton
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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.
Hilary Mantel -
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
Ben Lerner -
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.
Ben Lerner -
Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
Nicholas Delbanco