Best 4069 quotes in «fiction quotes» category

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

I just love historical fiction.

I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

I love science fiction.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.