Fiction Quotes - Page 18

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not defined by its content, by its "about"-ness. Where you read it irrespective of whether you're interested in the subject.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.