Fiction Quotes - Page 23

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.