Ya Fiction Quotes

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I’ll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're making literature.

You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong turn in poetry, and something wonderful can happen.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.