Sc Fiction Quotes

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

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.

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.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

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.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

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.

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

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

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

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

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.