Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

Haruki Murakami

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.

Jill McCorkle

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

Joaquin Phoenix

Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.

James Van Pelt

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

Jesmyn Ward

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Jo Deurbrouck

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

Jonathan Evison

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

Jeaniene Frost

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Jonathan Franzen

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

Jen Lancaster

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Lisa Tuttle

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

George Stephen

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

Simon Mawer

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Carol Ann Duffy

Pumpkin: Garçon! Coffee! [the waitress approaches the table and refills Pumpkin's cup] Waitress: 'Garçon' means boy.

Pulp Fiction

Jimmie: I'm gonna get fuckin' divorced. No marriage counselling, no trial separation, I'm gonna get fuckin' divorced.

Pulp Fiction

Butch: That's how you're gonna beat 'em, Butch. They keep underestimating you.

Pulp Fiction

Kay Eiffel: [narrating] Why was Harold talking to this man? This man was an idiot.

Stranger Than Fiction

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

George Murray

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

Patrick Rothfuss