On Fiction Quotes

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.

The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.