Fiction Quotes

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

Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

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

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.

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

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

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 have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

Madness, and then illumination.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.

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

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.