Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

John Updike

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

Beau Willimon

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

Lawrence Block

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Mona Simpson

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

Rick Moody

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Christopher Fry

I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

Ira Glass

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Irwin Shaw

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

J. M. Coetzee

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

David Nicholls

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

David Sedaris

Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

David Foster Wallace

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction.

Josh Malerman

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

Jonathan Tropper

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

David Frum

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

Javier Cercas

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

Nancy Thayer