Sc Fiction Quotes

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

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

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

...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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.