Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colum McCann

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

David Gerrold

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

Ray Bradbury

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'

This shows the president is more interested in science fiction than science.

We run into science fiction pretty quickly. Those guys get there before we do and then we have to go do it.

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

John Irving

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

Bernard Werber

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

Robert Morgan

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Orson Scott Card

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Kurt Vonnegut

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

Moby

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Mark Twain

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Martin Landau

I've always been interested in science fiction

J. Michael Straczynski

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

J. Michael Straczynski

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

J. M. Coetzee

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

J. M. Coetzee

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Ivan Reitman

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

Ivan Reitman

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

H. L. Mencken

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Paul Bowles

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Matt Groening

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Matt Groening

With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

Paul Auster

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

R. D. Laing

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Poppy Z. Brite

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Katherine Paterson

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Julian Barnes

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Ken Follett

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.