Fiction Quotes

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.