Ya Fiction Quotes

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.