Quotes of: Fictions Keyword

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

Ray McKinnon

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Aleksandar Hemon

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Bruce Boxleitner

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

William Gibson

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true abo...

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fict...

Anita Brookner

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does conc...

Arthur C. Clarke

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.

Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Berenice Marlohe

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Susan Sontag

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.

HerStory: Fiction Honoring Women's History Month

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

Tales of the Fiction House

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

Dave Gibbons

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

Tim LaHaye

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on.

Kurt Vonnegut

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

Olivia Wilde

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

John Scalzi

I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

P. J. O'Rourke

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Ray Kurzweil

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Sarah Sutton

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Jerry B. Jenkins