Quotes of: Fiction Keyword

...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness

Philip K. Dick

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to e...

Joel C. Rosenberg

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order...

Alan Arkin

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untr...

George R. R. Martin

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

The Bone Clocks

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

C. J. Cherryh

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

Imagined Worlds

The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional

Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Leo Rosten

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Reed

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

Antony Beevor

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

Daniel Woodrell

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

James Frey

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Cory Doctorow

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

China Mieville

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Dwight Schultz

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Frederik Pohl

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Lindsay Wagner

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

Mark Hamill

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Octavia E. Butler

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Paul Krugman