Fiction Quotes - Page 10

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also because as time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

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

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.