Sc Fiction Quotes

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.

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

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

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

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.