Sc Fiction Quotes

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

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

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

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.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

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

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.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.

Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.

We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.