Fiction Quotes - Page 22

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change of pace for you." And, I'm like, "Not really." When you're doing a science fiction movie, it's almost exactly the same.

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.