Quotes About Fiction

Olaf Stapledon's classic work of science fiction, Star Maker:

sin ciencia no hay ciencia ficción.

This is not just an academic exercise, since one day we may have to alter and enhance our bodies using cybernetics or even change our genetic makeup in order to survive in hostile exoplanetary environments. Transhumanism, instead of being a branch of science fiction or a fringe movement, may become an essential part of our very existence.

The secondary characters are based on people who really exist, but everything I believe about them is a story of my own creation.

Nothing matters more than the stories we tell ourselves to explain the world.

No, what's the use, there's no leaving a place like this for any amount of freedom, thought the dog sniffing dismally, I've got used to it. I'm a gentleman's dog, an intelligent being, acquired a taste for the good things of life. And what is freedom? Smoke, mirage, fiction... the raving of those unhappy-democrats...

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be decoded.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

Actually, he had always preferred the unreal to the real.

What is a novel if not a trap for catching a hero?

Mimpi-mimpi kita membuktikan bahwa untuk berimajinasi-bermimpi mengenai hal-hal yang tidak terjadi-adalah kebutuhan manusia yang paling dalam.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities.

As personagens do meu romance são as minhas próprias possibilidades não realizadas. É o que faz com que goste igualmente de todas elas e também com que elas me assustem igualmente um pouco. Todas, sem exceção, atravessaram uma fronteira que eu só contornei.

Como já disse os personagens não nascem de um corpo materno, como os seres vivos, mas de uma situação, uma frase, uma metáfora que contém em embrião uma possibilidade humana fundamental que o autor imagina não ter sido ainda descoberta, ou sobre a qual nada ainda foi dito de essencial.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

I write romance because I love to read romance.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

I just love fiction. I love it.