Sc Fiction Quotes

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.