Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

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

[about Homer going to college] Jim Hickam: Yeah, on a science fiction scholarship, maybe.

October Sky

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Richard Russo

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Thomas Mallon

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Alfred Bester

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

Douglas Lain

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Fred Saberhagen