Fiction Quotes
Fiction Quote of the day
Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either
Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers
Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.