Top Fiction Quotes Collection
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Science fiction is the very literature of change.Collection: Fiction
Youth is stranger than fiction.Collection: Fiction
What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.Collection: Fiction
Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.Collection: Fiction
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.Collection: Fiction
there are elements of truth in all great fictionCollection: Fiction
I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.Collection: Fiction
Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.Collection: Fiction
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.Collection: Fiction
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.Collection: Fiction
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.Collection: Fiction
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.Collection: Fiction
Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.Collection: Fiction
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.Collection: Fiction
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.Collection: Fiction
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.Collection: Fiction
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.Collection: Fiction
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.Collection: Fiction
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.Collection: Fiction
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.Collection: Fiction
No one in life can ever match fictionCollection: Fiction
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.Collection: Fiction
I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actualCollection: Fiction
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.Collection: Fiction
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.Collection: Fiction
I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.Collection: Fiction
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'Collection: Fiction
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.Collection: Fiction
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.Collection: Fiction
Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.Collection: Fiction
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.Collection: Fiction
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.Collection: Fiction
I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.Collection: Fiction
in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.Collection: Fiction
Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?Collection: Fiction
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.Collection: Fiction
I do not love fiction, I love history.Collection: Fiction
Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.Collection: Fiction
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.Collection: Fiction
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'Collection: Fiction
Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.Collection: Fiction
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.Collection: Fiction
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.Collection: Fiction
Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.Collection: Fiction
When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.Collection: Fiction
Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of lifeCollection: Fiction
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.Collection: Fiction
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.Collection: Fiction
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.Collection: Fiction