Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

China Mieville

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

O. R. Melling

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Peter Benchley

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

Paul Di Filippo

This is fan fiction, but it’s the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent and unorthodox.

Sarah Warning Potentially Off-Topic

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Sara Sheridan

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Steven Wright

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Tanith Lee

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

Joss Whedon

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Jennifer Weiner

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

Lucy Walker

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

Michael P. Anderson

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Rod Serling

I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.

Nina Hagen

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

Paul Harding

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Joss Whedon

Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

Yochai Benkler