Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.

Justin Alcala

I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.

E.M. Forster

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

Helen Dunmore

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Jennifer Weiner

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Chris Carter

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

China Mieville

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Faran Tahir

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Ivan Reitman

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

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker

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

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Neil LaBute