Ya Fiction Quotes

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.