Fiction Quotes - Page 13

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.