Quotes of: Fiction-writers Keyword

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

Jack Vance

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Margaret Atwood

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

Paul Krugman

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Ridley Scott

Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.

Sherwood Smith

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Terry Pratchett

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

Ray McKinnon

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Bruce Boxleitner

I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.

Love Lies Bleeding

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true abo...

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fict...

Anita Brookner

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does conc...

Arthur C. Clarke

Joseph: Cram it, failure! Hipolito, The Writer: Failed writer, failed life... I love the word "fail." Failure is human destiny. Joseph: It's gasbag time! Hipolito, The Writer: Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show t...

Amélie

Professional writers write to fit

From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children's Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.

Sophie Hannah

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.

Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Berenice Marlohe

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

Susan Sontag

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.

HerStory: Fiction Honoring Women's History Month

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

Tales of the Fiction House