On Fiction Quotes

The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.

It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.

This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.

I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

Don't blame you, " said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

Life, ” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

why Human should not look at the past?

This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.

Don't Panic

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or twice but all night.

I write fiction""What’s fiction?""Fiction is an improvement on life.

Zaphod had never heard of this. He believed that he had heard of all the fun things in the Galaxy, so he assumed that the Total Perspective Vortex was not fun.

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

I love science fiction - always have.

...Changelessness is decay.""A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse.""Changelessness is a change for the worse...

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts.

I assert nothing, I content myself with believing that more is possible than people think.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.

The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Nice passion is reading

Book is a nice companion

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.

Fiction is the truth inside a lie.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and it seemed to me they were half embarrassed in all that light, that civilized light.

You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

A hero ventures forth from the worldof common day into a region ofsupernatural wonder. Fabulous forcesare there encountered and a decisivevictory is won.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our soul, our eyes will grow bright.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

I suggest you leave now, or you’ll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting.”“Tie us down?”“And gag you, ” Joseph cheerfully reminded them.

Protect us, Golden One. I believe we are all going to need it.

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