Fiction Quotes - Page 20

I don't have time to read nonfiction.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories, anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun too!

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.