Sc Fiction Quotes
If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.
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.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.
When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.
In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
