Fiction Quotes - Page 24

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is going on with the president [Donald trump] and the parallels with [Richard] Nixon's presidency, I needed to know more about the man.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would be science fiction. It's just all to do with the toys, and there's so much hanging around.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?