Sc Fiction Quotes

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

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

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

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.

No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

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.

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.