Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

Making Shapely Fiction

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

A Little Book in C Major

Read this book ... but understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.

The Sorrows of Young Mike

We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.

Selected Non-Fictions

Sometimes I get advice from the fictional characters in my dreams. Sometimes It’s good, and sometimes it’s nonsensical.

This Book Has No Title

Does still run fiction?” “I have absolutely no idea, Melinda,” he said, grinning.

Virgin River

I’m your big bad wolf.

Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

The end has to come from within.

Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Harold Acton

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

Ian Mcewan

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Louise Mensch

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

Sufjan Stevens

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

Hilary Mantel

Erotic fiction is written for a class. To understand and enjoy it, either you should have the class or the classy open mind.

Himmilicious

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.

Neil Leckman

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Joe Wilson

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Peter Ackroyd

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

Philippa Gregory

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

Regina Doman

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Robert Duvall

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Roddy Doyle