Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

Claire Danes

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

Chang-Rae Lee

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Herman Wouk

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Herman Wouk

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Iain M. Banks

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Jami Attenberg

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Jacques Barzun

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.

Dennis McFadden

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Diane Setterfield

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

Emma Donoghue

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

Christian Baloga

I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

Gaby Hoffmann

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

Hill Harper

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

Jodine Turner

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

David Harsanyi

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Dean Koontz

I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.

Joseph DiFrancesco

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

Jonathan Evison

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

John C. Hawkes