Fiction Quotes
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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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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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Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.
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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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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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The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.
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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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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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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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Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
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There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.
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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 must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.
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The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?
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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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I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
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Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.
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I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
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For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
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The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
