Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.

Alanis Morissette

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

Lisa Scottoline

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

Jonathan Demme

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.

Melissa Peterman

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

Vincent Canby

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

Siri Hustvedt

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

Jeff Vandermeer

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

Lucy Walker

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Kurt Busiek

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

Iain Banks

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

Keira Knightley

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

Erin Duffy

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Sara Shepard

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

George Saunders

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

David Walliams

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Gao Xingjian

I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

Joel Edgerton

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

Jane Gardam

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

Paul Theroux

In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.

Sarah MacLean