Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brannon Braga

We wanted the science fiction to be accessible, that it not be like 'Star Trek,' that it not be technical, and everything has to be explained. We wanted it to be much scarier in the way it's presented.

Philip Levine

When I started writing, I wanted to be a fiction writer. I wanted to be a novelist.

Orson Scott Card

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Doris Lessing

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Doris Lessing

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record,

Cory Doctorow

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

Anna Torv

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Anna Torv

I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual

Anna Torv

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

Allen Ginsberg

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

E. M. Forster

A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.

Don DeLillo

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

Don DeLillo

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

David Frum

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

Alfred Hitchcock

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

Anthony Burgess

All novels are experimental.

Amanda Schull

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

Alvin Toffler

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Rick Moody

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Robert Kazinsky

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

Rob Morrow

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Raymond Carver

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Robert A. Heinlein

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

Roger Corman

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

Stephen Hawking

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Ron Rash

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

Rick Baker

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

Tim O'Brien

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Steven Spielberg

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

Tom Stoppard

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.