Sc Fiction Quotes

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

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

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.