Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

Tracy Kidder

I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.

Emily Perkins

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.

Brad Holland

Alexander Dyle: All right, get set for the story of my life. Reggie Lampert: Fiction or non-fiction?

Charade

It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.

Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science ...

Josh Fox

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

Sam Harris

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high s...

Daniel Tammet

Nikola Tesla: Exact science, Mr Angier, is not an exact science.

The Prestige

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

From Hell

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

Yann Martel

I tend to read non-fiction.

Gary Oldman

The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

Neil Gershenfeld

No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out of the ordinary; and then it seems improbable like fiction.

Futility

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.

Elie Wiesel

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

Bret Easton Ellis

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

Heidi Julavits

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

Chaim Potok