Sc Fiction Quotes
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.
Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative
I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.
It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.
Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.