Quotes About Fiction

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

I really liked the idea of a talking horse in a human world.

I want to make the world real. I have to be able to believe that it could happen. I can't put Pegasus in my stories because horses can't fly. It's just a quirk in my brain.

We don't have a problem killing off characters on 'House of Cards.'

'House of Cards' is aiming for truth, not accuracy.

I used to watch 'The Jetsons' growing up. I used to think that this woman, Rosie, the robot housekeeper, was going to exist. I think we're far away from that happening.

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where they all lived, what color their houses are.

I'm not a big fan of fantasy; I'd rather watch 'Desperate Housewives' than 'Game of Thrones.'

I'm a huge 'Back to the Future' fan.

For me, to get to play an action hero in a science fiction film is a marriage of two genres that I'm a huge fan of.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

College applications are such a huge part of senior year, yet often times you never see characters in books actually do work.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me.

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

I'm kind of like a tween. I've read all 'Hunger Games' books in three days.

I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.'

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

She is reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. A sci-fi girl. Abused women like escapism, of course.

Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.

I blamed the whole mess on Charles Dickens.

The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.

books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.