Fiction Quotes - Page 12

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.