Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

Lisa Loeb

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

John Grisham

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

Joseph Wambaugh

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Penelope Lively

Jules: If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

Pulp Fiction

Maynard: Nobody kills anyone in my store except me and Zed. [doorbell rings] Maynard: That's Zed.

Pulp Fiction

Marsellus: [right before Butch purposely runs into him with a car] Motherfucker.

Pulp Fiction

Marsellus: In the fifth, your ass goes down. Say it. Butch: In the fifth, my ass goes down.

Pulp Fiction

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Martin Amis

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

Julia Glass

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

Janet Fitch

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Siri Hustvedt

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Poppy Z. Brite

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Anita Diament

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

Bill Callahan

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

Todd Strasser

The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.

Love

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

William H. Gass