Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Bruno Mars

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Annie Besant

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

They scoff, “Please, I’d give up science itself for you if I had to.

Love

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Victor J. Stenger

...but of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets...

The Complete Fiction

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

The Children of the Sky

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

Dead as a Doornail

Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.

Dreamcatcher

An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.

Darkness Left Undone

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

Earthly Powers

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

America takes her writers too seriously.

The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.

Imagining Argentina

Fuck, if only ‘aesthetic idiom’ didn’t sound so damn poncy.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

Stranger than Fiction

Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.

Shadow War

A teleporting cat! Is she yours?" Dr. Daniel McCleod. "Suki

Wyrd Wravings: An Anthology of Humorous Speculative Fiction

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Chuck Palahniuk

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Raymond Carver

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

Jess Walter