Fiction Quotes
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Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
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Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.
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Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.
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What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.
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I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.
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Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
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No one in life can ever match fiction
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The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.
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Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
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Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.
