Sc Fiction Quotes

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

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.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I've always been interested in science fiction

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

All autobiography is fiction.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.