Fiction Quotes - Page 16

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.