Sc Fiction Quotes

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.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

Justice will prevail!

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

All novels are experimental.

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.