Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Don't ruin a good story with the facts.

Trilogies: 18 Sets of Short Fiction

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Kathy Acker

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Neil Gaiman

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

Orhan Pamuk

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

Peter Dinklage

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Peter Straub

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Rita Mae Brown

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

Stephanie Roberts

I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.

Teri Louise Kelly

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

Tim LaHaye

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

Thomas Perry

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.

Kurt Vonnegut

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

Laura Hillenbrand

Fiction is but a moment of bliss that takes the pain away...Like a cookie for the soul...

Leona Keyoko Pink

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

Matt Groening

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

Michael Morpurgo

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

Marco Tempest

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

Nadine Gordimer

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Julian Schnabel