Fiction Quotes
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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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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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If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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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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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you’d forgotten was there. Frame, crossbeams, slats, braces, joins. Revealing the softer sapwood, which is marked by candle burns. ...Jonathan holding both of my hands under the table, one of the first times we’d really touched. You must think I’m a lunatic. No, I think it’s a beautiful story. About family and art and memory and meaning, how it’s made and unmade.
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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.
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Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
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Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
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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.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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Evidently what in the fiction of the story serves in all innocence to reach the heart of the reader becomes an abomination for one who feels the echo of the facts she has really lived.
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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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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
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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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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
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The Internet is changing American fiction - and I don't mean in some kind of metaphysical way.
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I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
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The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
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Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.
