Fiction Quotes - Page 33

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.