Fiction Quotes

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?

Kelvin Throop III

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

C. J. Cherryh

The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else

Frederic Bastiat

I hate the whole ubermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

William M. Kucmierowski

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

William M. Kucmierowski

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Ray Douglas Bradbury

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Susannah

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Herman Wouk

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Martin Amis

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination

Ambrose Bierce

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.

J. G. Ballard

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Lynd

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction..

Virginia Woolf
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