Sc Fiction Quotes

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

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.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

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.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

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.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

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.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

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 only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

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.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

I tend to read non-fiction.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.