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.

Walker Percy

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Salman Rushdie

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Rod Serling

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

William Faulkner

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Will Self

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

William H. Gass

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

Wilkie Collins

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Ruth Glick

Nobodys life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

Rowan Williams

A public is a necessary fiction.

Vladimir Nabokov

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Vladimir Nabokov

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Yancy Butler

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Andrew Clements

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

Jen Lancaster

I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Lexa Doig

I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.

Moon Bloodgood

I love science fiction.

Mike Lee

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Kathy Reichs

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

Khaled Hosseini

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Jonathan Safran Foer

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.