Fiction Quotes

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

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

Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people experience violence on screen. There was very little space for fiction, it was more like a sacrifice for the actors than anything else.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.