Fiction Quotes - Page 11

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at the finish line simultaneously is to embrace a fiction possibly more implausible than Christianity.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.