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Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.

Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

Fiction is empathy technology.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

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

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

Fiction is an improvement on life