Sc Fiction Quotes

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

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.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.