Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Martin Amis

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

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.

Martin Amis

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Martin Amis

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

Peter Mullan

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

Peter Matthiessen

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Mira Nair

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Peter Straub

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Terry Pratchett

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Terry Pratchett

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Terry Pratchett

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Teresa Medeiros

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

Lexa Doig

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Leslie Fiedler

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Len Wiseman

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Lembit Opik

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....

John Kenneth Galbraith

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.