Fiction Quotes - Page 27

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

I don't read fiction at all.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.