Fiction Quotes - Page 2

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.