Sc Fiction Quotes

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

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.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.