Fiction Quotes - Page 41

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

The difference between me and you is that I do good fiction.

Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.