Fiction Quotes - Page 32

Science fiction is the very literature of change.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the rest, but even with those I end up fudging the facts just to keep it from going stale.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They made it their own. There are names of plants or chants or certain rites and everything that you cannot come across it in a movie. You know, you cannot learn about them casually. So the film doesn't have value in the ethnographical, anthropological. It's fiction.

The fatal flaw of most utopian visions is that they're fundamentally static, and that's not a comfortable place for humans to live. Fourier was very good at imagining a utopia that is constantly changing and very busy, but a vision of paradise that would have been most tantalizing to an underfed overworked factory worker in 1840 doesn't have much appeal in fiction because it's not a story.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.