Fiction Quotes

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.

I don't read Science Fiction.

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

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

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.