Fiction Quotes - Page 47

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

I just love fiction. I love it.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

My portal to another world was fiction.

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.