Quotes of: Fiction-writers Keyword

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

Dave Gibbons

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

Olivia Wilde

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

John Scalzi

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

P. J. O'Rourke

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Ray Kurzweil

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Sarah Sutton

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

Nicolas Cage

I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.

Roky Erickson

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Alice Hoffman

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Dennis Lehane

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

George R. R. Martin

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

J. J. Abrams

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

Catherine Jinks

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

J. M. Coetzee

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

John Cheever

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Dean Cavanagh

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

John M. Ford

Those who are ignorant of science fiction movie tropes are condemned to play imperial stormtroopers.

John Alejandro King

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Jonathan Lethem

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

Nicolas Cage