Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Joseph Kosinski

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

Joseph Boyden

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

Justin Cronin

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Katharine Kerr

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Romola Garai

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

William S. Burroughs

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

William Gibson

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

Rebecca Mader

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

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.

Wallace Stevens

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

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.

Yann Martel

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

Zoe Saldana

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.