Quotes About Fiction

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

The problem with celebrity hot guys is they either get old or go off the grid. That's why a book is so much better... a hot guy can live in your imagination and stay hot forever!

The difference between a Marvel superhero and a DC superhero is that we place Marvel superheroes in the real world that we recognize and that we know.

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world.

The benefit of having a story that takes place in the real world is that you don't have to invent the real world. It exists.

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

I've never seen 'The Simpsons.'

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.

I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I'm writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.

As a species, we tend to live in environments where our own artifacts dominate. The way we shape our environment and are in turn shaped by it is a key theme in my fiction - indeed, it's a key part of a great deal of science fiction.

We try to do that for stories - we try to say, 'OK, here's the message, here's the theme, here's the good people and the bad.' Life is not nearly like that.

The best fiction in the history of the world had not adequately conveyed just how much a broken heart could hurt or how much crying was involved. It was a kind of death made worse by the fact that there hadn't been a death at all, unless you accounted for the demise of perfect happiness.

I love romance and love stories. In my work, I require happy endings. And hopefulness. I like to read about people working things out.

Have you ever known a guy like that? That responsive? That genuine?" "Yeah," Peyton said. "Hank on Royal Pains." When Devon shot her a questioning look, she said, "It's a TV show. In other words, fiction.

The world tends toward chaos, you know," Cassidy said. You could too. Just write down a made up name, or even a fictional character. And the next person who finds this geocache, it's as though things really hapened that way. You have to at least allow for the possibility of it.