Quotes of: Fiction Keyword

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.

Life

Years ago, when I was about to go on a book tour for , my editor at the time and I sat down to figure out what to call what I was writing for the interviews that were to come. Terri came up with the term mythic fiction and I think that sums it up per...

Charles de Lint

Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours

Darkness Left Undone

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Ira Glass

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

Reid Scott

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Peter Matthiessen

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Rick Bass

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Leonard Mlodinow

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Rod Sterling

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world.

Marty Rubin

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

J. Michael Straczynski

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Gillian Cross

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Dan Simmons

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

Steve Earle

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

Bernard Werber

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Elizabeth Moon

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

Jill Scott

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

China Mieville

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Christian McKay