Fiction Quotes - Page 52

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first.

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all mapped out. I'm ready. I'm ready to bring it to the world.

Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I love science fiction.

I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results in a deeper understanding as opposed to the novel proclaiming this is what it is right and this is what is wrong.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.