Quotes of: Fiction-writers Keyword

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

Tim LaHaye

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Terry Pratchett

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Theodore Sturgeon

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Miriam Allen de Ford

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

John McGahern

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Susan Orlean

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

Frederik Pohl

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

John Rhys-Davies

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

Katee Sackhoff

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Gerald Clarke

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

Gillian Cross

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Ira Glass

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

E. L. Doctorow

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

Gene Wolfe

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Joan Didion

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Steven Spielberg

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

David Hanson

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Elizabeth Moon

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Iain Banks