Fiction Stories Quotes

Fiction Stories Quote of the day

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

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.

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

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy.