Quotes about fiction
fiction fans science-fiction
I'm a huge science fiction fan. Emma Caulfield
fiction stranger stranger-than-fiction
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating. Greg Cox
fiction life-is happens
75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.. Glenn Hoddle
fiction greatest-love behinds
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. J. Courtney Sullivan
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My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fiction great information lovely open social talk whether
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. Karin Slaughter
fiction opened quite science stanley work
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. Ridley Scott
fiction mainstream reader
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other. Bharati Mukherjee
fiction future montreal quebec science shot tons visual
'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen. Martin Villeneuve
fiction lives nature quite since stuff wonder writers
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! Julia Glass
fiction magazines science stories teachers word
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart. James Altucher
fiction fictional future science sure tools
When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions. Paolo Bacigalupi
fiction students science-fiction
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. Buzz Aldrin
fiction said written
The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction. Janeane Garofalo
fiction action kind
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi. Ethan Hawke
fiction fables facts
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges... Herman Melville
fiction television mystery
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it. Jill Scott
fiction film enough
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect. Jeff Vandermeer
fiction noir contemporary
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. Jeff Goldblum
fiction fabric done
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research. Iain Banks
fiction emotion study
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. Isaac Asimov
fiction literature faces
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us.
fiction lifetime expect-nothing
God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.
fiction should please
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible. Horace
fiction mystery shock-and-awe
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.' J. Michael Straczynski
fiction babylon-5 chains
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.
fiction invitations my-own
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. J. M. Coetzee
fiction way why-not
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
fiction science-fiction
I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast. Ivan Reitman
fiction able fans
I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
fiction charm autobiography
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram. H. L. Mencken
fiction fine interested line pushing
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible. Jill McCorkle
fiction natural imaginative
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. Hugo Gernsback