Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stacy Keach

Papa Darth. Well, I don't know if Ken is technologically inclined. I suspect not. I don't know if science fiction would be his interest.

Alice McDermott

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Mae Jemison

I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

Lisa McMann

I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

William Gibson

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Warren Ellis

If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.

Alexander Smith

An old novel has a history of its own.

Ruth Ozeki

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Ranbir Kapoor

I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.

Peter Morgan

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

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

David Gerrold

The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.

Tim O'Brien

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Annie Baker

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

Alan Furst

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

Frederic Raphael

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

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.'

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

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

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.

Colson Whitehead

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

Colum McCann

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

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.

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.