Fiction Quotes - Page 55

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

Science always interested me, and science, real science, was more science fiction than science fiction.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.