Quotes of: Fictional Keyword

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

M. John Harrison

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Neil Gaiman

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

Nicolas Roeg

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Octavia Butler

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Paul Verhoeven

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Rudy Rucker

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah Zettel

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

William Gibson

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Tahmoh Penikett

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

David S. Goyer

As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.

J. August Richards

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Nicolas Cage

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Peter Morgan

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

Theodore Sturgeon

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

Tom Wolfe

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

W. P. Kinsella

The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and sta...

The Common Reader

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's...

Role Models

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of under...

Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective

You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, b...

Sara Sheridan