Fiction Quotes - Page 49

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

Fiction creating reality.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

"I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster."

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.