Fiction Quotes - Page 9

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

I do not love fiction, I love history.

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.