Best 4069 quotes in «fiction quotes» category

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.

In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

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

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm such a plot buff, and I'm really such a narrative buff, I can't seem to relinquish my - not just reliance - but excitement about those traditional techniques.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

I rather like getting away from fiction.

I quite enjoy science fiction.

I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think that we might be able to make some of [what I've read in science fiction books] come true.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.