Quotes About Fiction

What most of these authors don't seem to have realized is that if you can travel faster than light, the theory of relativity implies you can also travel back in time, as the following limerick says: There was a young lady of Wight Who travelled much faster than light. She departed one day, In a relative way, And arrived on the previous night.

But real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying.

An asteroid collision would be something against which we have no defence. The last big such collision with us was about sixty-six million years ago and that is thought to have killed the dinosaurs, and it will happen again. This is not science fiction; it is guaranteed by the laws of physics and probability.

It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science-fiction writers, but they are firmly matters of science fact.

Gagasan bahwa kita bisa berjalan mengelilingi alam semesta dan kembali ke tempat semula itu cocok dijadikan fiksi sains, tapi tidak punya banyak arti praktis karena bisa ditunjukkan bahwa alam semesta keburu runtuh menjadi berukuran nol sebelum kita bisa kembali ke titik awal. Kita perlu bergerak lebih cepat daripada cahaya agar bisa sampai ke titik awal sebelum alam semesta berakhir—dan itu tak diperbolehkan!

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I tend to scare myself.

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Politics always change. Stories never do.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal Once upon a time.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit. Stephen King, On Writing

Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. S.K.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.