Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romola Garai

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

William Gibson

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Robert Reed

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Sarah Zettel

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah McLachlan

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Warren Ellis

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Virginia Woolf

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Walker Percy

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

William Wordsworth

A tale in everything.

Polybius

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Homer

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

Homer

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Homer

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Adam Scott

Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the show, it's really surreal to be on the set and see that it's not real, and getting to know the actors and they're not their characters.

Vincente Minnelli

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.