Quotes About Fiction

I have some knowledge of the time that may be misspent, clinging to fictions and supposing them truths.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Ainsi, j'ai aimé une chose qui n'existait pas.

Being a novelist meant she always anticipated the worst. It was her job to always think of dramatic things involving kidnaps and falling down mine-shafts and so on.

We should have stories not to tell us how to live and turn our lives into copies of stories, but to prevent us from having to fictionalise ourselves".

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

i often wonder at what point my thoughts cease to be my reality and simply merge with my dreams to become my fiction, my life.

Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads. -You're just making that up, Jean.

Congratulations! We're reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!

Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we've made it our meal ticket?

What an interesting choice of words. "Not real, and never were." Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we've made it our meal-ticket?' 'I

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When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Certainly, de Grandin was not the first occult detective—Algernon Blackwood's John Silence, Hodgson's Thomas Carnacki, and Sax Rohmer's Moris Klaw preceded him—nor was he the last, as Wellman's John Thunstone, Margery Lawrence's Miles Pennoyer, and Joseph Payne Brennan's Lucius Leffing all either overlapped with the end of de Grandin's run or followed him.

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.