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Fiction Quotes

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision Picture Quote #1

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere Picture Quote #1

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one Picture Quote #1

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens Picture Quote #1

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction Picture Quote #1

The thing about science fiction is that it’s totally wide open. But it’s wide open in a conditional way Picture Quote #1

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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person Picture Quote #1

There’s a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons Picture Quote #1

When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months Picture Quote #1

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be Picture Quote #1

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts Picture Quote #1

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that Picture Quote #1

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When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books Picture Quote #1

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history Picture Quote #1

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It’s one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it Picture Quote #1

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism Picture Quote #1

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings Picture Quote #1

When I’m writing about reality, I’m writing about death. When I’m writing fiction, I’m writing about life Picture Quote #1

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There’s no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can’t write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work Picture Quote #1

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time Picture Quote #1

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it Picture Quote #1

I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics Picture Quote #1

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur Picture Quote #1

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

If you like to read, sometimes it’s interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination Picture Quote #1

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives Picture Quote #1

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality Picture Quote #1

I feel I’m functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I’m trying to get the world accurate Picture Quote #1

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear Picture Quote #1

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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision (Fiction Quotes) Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere (Fiction Quotes) Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one (Fiction Quotes) Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens (Fiction Quotes) Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction (Fiction Quotes) The thing about science fiction is that it’s totally wide open. But it’s wide open in a conditional way (Fiction Quotes) There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person (Fiction Quotes) There’s a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons (Fiction Quotes) When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months (Fiction Quotes) With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be (Fiction Quotes) I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts (Fiction Quotes) Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that (Fiction Quotes) When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books (Fiction Quotes) I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history (Fiction Quotes) Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It’s one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it (Fiction Quotes) In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism (Fiction Quotes) We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings (Fiction Quotes) When I’m writing about reality, I’m writing about death. When I’m writing fiction, I’m writing about life (Fiction Quotes) There’s no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can’t write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work (Fiction Quotes) The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time (Fiction Quotes) It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it (Fiction Quotes) I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics (Fiction Quotes) As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur (Fiction Quotes) Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur (Fiction Quotes) 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 (Fiction Quotes) If you like to read, sometimes it’s interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination (Fiction Quotes) Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives (Fiction Quotes) The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality (Fiction Quotes) I feel I’m functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I’m trying to get the world accurate (Fiction Quotes) Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear (Fiction Quotes)

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