Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Malcolm Forbes

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

Mark Helprin

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Monica Johnson

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination

Ryohgo Narita

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.

Robbie Robertson

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

Russell Smith

If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.

Shannon L. Alder

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

Sloane Crosley

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

Michelle M. Pillow

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

Marilynne Robinson

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Mae West

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

Noel Clarke

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

Nicola Chiaromonte

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

Elizabeth Moon

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

Bodhidharma

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse and repeat.

The Watchman of Ephraim

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

David O. Russell

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

Miguel Syjuco

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.

Neil Cross