Fiction Quotes - Page 6

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Youth is stranger than fiction.

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Fiction is a branch of neurology