Quotes of: Fiction Keyword

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

William Gibson

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

Gale Anne Hurd

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

George R. R. Martin

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

Saul Steinberg

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

The Host

I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.

Paul Verhoeven

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Richard Hughes

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

Romola Garai

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz a...

Neil Gaiman

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

Gerald Clarke

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

Michio Kaku

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Mark Twain

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of t...

Richard Dawkins

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

William Gibson

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Damon Lindelof

That's science fiction shit," "It's only fiction until science catches up.

J D Robb Fantasy in Death

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Jack Vance

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Khaled Hosseini

Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this po...

Raymond E. Feist

Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a no...

Joanna Scott