Quotations
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
View quotes by J G Ballard
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
View quotes by Jean Baudrillard
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
View quotes by Jim Rohn
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
View quotes by Tom Clancy
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non-fiction-histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
View quotes by Dan Brown
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
View quotes by Bernard Malamud
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
View quotes by Ivana Trump
May I try some of your tasty beverage?(Pulp Fiction)
View quotes by Samuel L Jackson
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
View quotes by Aneurin Bevan
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf
75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.
View quotes by Glen Hoddle
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
View quotes by J G Ballard
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
View quotes by Lord Byron
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
View quotes by Susan Sontag
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.
View quotes by William Faulkner
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinley
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
View quotes by William Hurt
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh...
View quotes by Lembit Opik
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