Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.

Harlow

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Something Different

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

The Sense of an Ending

There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.

Someplace to Be Flying

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Stranger than Fiction

Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

...clearly, we're supposed to be together. If this were the internet, seventeen-year-old girls would be writing slash fiction about us as we speak.

Lightning Rod

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

Stolen Inheritance - A True Story of Oil, Army and Murder

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.

Sky Song

all fiction is better with explosions' said Jared. 'Basic fact of life.

The Spring Before I Met You

I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.

Take a Bow

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Pattern Recognition

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

What Maisie Knew

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

The Well of Lost Plots

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Writings on Writing

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

The Woman in White

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by t...

George Saintsbury