Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Piers Anthony

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

Pat Barker

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Paul Di Filippo

Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

Randy Alcorn

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Raymond Carver

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

Roddy Doyle

Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.

Steven Rigolosi

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Tom Rachman

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

Joss Whedon

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Leslie Fiedler

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Lorrie Moore

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Lance Reddick

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

Lynne Truss

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

Raymond A. Mar

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Rick Yancey

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

Steven Amsterdam

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

Shannon L. Alder

I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

Neil Cross

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

Nicole Krauss

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

Adam Langer