Fiction Quotes - Page 56

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about more than we do. And it's funny, of course, so we have that release valve with absurdism. It offers us a safe way to explore difficult subject matter.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

All memory is fiction.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship