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Fiction Quotes

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me Picture Quote #1

Because television doesn’t offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you’ve got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science Picture Quote #1

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book Picture Quote #1

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact Picture Quote #1

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear Picture Quote #1

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work Picture Quote #1

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People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars Picture Quote #1

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly Picture Quote #1

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world Picture Quote #1

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one Picture Quote #1

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction Picture Quote #1

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact Picture Quote #1

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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction Picture Quote #1

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself Picture Quote #1

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth Picture Quote #1

We don’t read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we’re living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something Picture Quote #1

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth Picture Quote #1

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination Picture Quote #1

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It’s your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion Picture Quote #1

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own Picture Quote #1

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams Picture Quote #1

The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves Picture Quote #1

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction Picture Quote #1

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction Picture Quote #1

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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others Picture Quote #1

It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction Picture Quote #1

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later Picture Quote #1

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy Picture Quote #1

And Shanghai is amazing. I’m a fan of science fiction so when you’re there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it’s like a set in a movie Picture Quote #1

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography Picture Quote #1

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I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me (Fiction Quotes) Because television doesn’t offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you’ve got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science (Fiction Quotes) There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book (Fiction Quotes) If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact (Fiction Quotes) Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear (Fiction Quotes) Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work (Fiction Quotes) People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars (Fiction Quotes) The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly (Fiction Quotes) Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world (Fiction Quotes) There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one (Fiction Quotes) Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction (Fiction Quotes) I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact (Fiction Quotes) There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction (Fiction Quotes) Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself (Fiction Quotes) Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth (Fiction Quotes) We don’t read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we’re living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something (Fiction Quotes) She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth (Fiction Quotes) That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination (Fiction Quotes) It’s your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion (Fiction Quotes) There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own (Fiction Quotes) In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams (Fiction Quotes) The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else’s fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves (Fiction Quotes) The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction (Fiction Quotes) A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction (Fiction Quotes) In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others (Fiction Quotes) It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction (Fiction Quotes) A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later (Fiction Quotes) And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy (Fiction Quotes) And Shanghai is amazing. I’m a fan of science fiction so when you’re there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it’s like a set in a movie (Fiction Quotes) As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography (Fiction Quotes)

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