Fiction Quotes - Page 21

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

A public is a necessary fiction.

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.