Quotes about fiction
fiction sci-fi
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. Margaret Atwood
fiction use how-you-feel
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.
fiction pieces
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say. Martin Amis
fiction technique crank
I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.
fiction way
Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
fiction science-fiction reader
I was a very keen reader of science fiction. Terry Pratchett
fiction firsts astronomy
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
fiction elements
there are elements of truth in all great fiction Teresa Medeiros
fiction preference novel
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. Ralph Waldo Emerson
fiction method certain
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. Leslie Fiedler
fiction science-fiction extensions
Science fiction is an extension of science. Len Wiseman
fiction-stories guy sound
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.... Lembit Opik
fiction lines dividing
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction. John Kenneth Galbraith
fiction world littles
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 Kosinski
fiction stories needs
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. Joseph Boyden
fiction grew apocalyptic
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction. Justin Cronin
fiction literature twists
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. Katharine Kerr
fiction emotion belief
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. John Gardner
fiction path given
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry. John Fowles
fiction-and-nonfiction talent problem
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. Jonathan Coe
fiction crowds different
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic. Jonathan Carroll
fiction action grew
I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it! Katee Sackhoff
fiction way path
It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish. John Dos Passos
fiction facts
Every fiction has its base in fact. Gayle Forman
fiction stories elements
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story. Malcolm Cowley
fiction kind adore
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction. Heidi Julavits
fiction modern rely
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. Henry Rollins
fiction genius literature
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. Heinrich Heine
fiction input taste
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel. Hilary Mantel
fiction done corporations
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk. Henry Jenkins
fiction crime crime-fiction
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction. Harlan Coben
fiction-writers visible universe
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. Gustave Flaubert
fiction debate science-fiction
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate. Greg Bear