Sc Fiction Quotes
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.
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional 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.
Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.
there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.
Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.
Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.
Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.
Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.
Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!
The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum
In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.
I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!
The other raised his club and attacked L, who inexpliciably fell over on his back like an overturned frog.
Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.
I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.