Sc Fiction Quotes

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

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.

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

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

Love is as hard to hide as hate.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.