Ya Fiction Quotes

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

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.

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

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.