Fiction Quotes

Fiction is socially meaningful.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

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.

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

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

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.