Fiction Quotes - Page 63

I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for a different century or a different time period as an actor, as an individual. Something that's, what's the word, something that's not involved with spaceships.

The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.