Fiction Quotes - Page 42

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.

My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the emotions, the rest is research and that leap which some can do and others cannot - it's not really something you can learn, otherwise all academics of literature would be wonderful fiction writers.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.