Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

TRUTH in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

Rabindranath Tagore

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.

Shannon L. Alder

Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.

Sanhita Baruah

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

Michelle M. Pillow

Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story.

Marty Rubin

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

Paul Auster

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

David Leavitt

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

Poppy Z. Brite

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Alice Walker

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Chris Chocola

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

Joel Edgerton

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

David Gemmell

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

James D'arcy

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

Diablo Cody

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Richard Attenborough

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Will Self

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Diana Gabaldon

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

Norah Jones

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

Varley O'Connor