Fiction Quotes

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

A public is a necessary fiction.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.