Quotes About Fiction

but dreams on paper are never as good as the real thing.

Whoso shal telle a tale after a man,He moot reherce as ny as evere he kanEverich a word, if it be in his charge,Al speke he never so rudeliche and large,Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe,Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes new.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Sean called 'em space chickens.

The GPS spoke in Darth Vader's voice, informing me that my destination was in 500 feet on the right. Saved by the Sith.

But it was hard to immerse yourself in a fictional tale, no matter how exciting, when your life was beginning to feel like a bestselling thriller.

She tells so many different stories and they are all false.

Literature must always represent a battle between real people and images'.

Anyway people never fall in love suddenly like that except in novels.

Zeroth Law...

Logical but not reasonable. Wasn't that the definition of a robot?

THE FOUNDATION NOVELS Prelude to Foundation Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation's Edge Forward the Foundation

Yet, if there is the possibility of this satisfaction from accurate prophecy in science fiction, there is also the reverse. Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does. After all, if we may prove accurate in our predictions, we may prove inaccurate as well, sometimes ludicrously so.

Las historias de viaje en el tiempo son demasiado divertidas para ser eliminadas simplemente por consideraciones mundanas sobre impracticabilidad o incluso imposibilidad.

calzoncillos.

apareció en el número de junio de 1950 de Astounding. Era la primera historia que escribía que trataba principalmente de computadoras (las llamé «Máquinas» en la historia) más que de robots en sí mismos.

nunca llegué a escribir un ensayo serio sobre robótica. Tengo por lo menos la esperanza de haber escrito ensayos serios sobre imperios galácticos y psicohistoria.

Todo había ocurrido con la catastrófica rapidez de un sueño... y con el irreal horror de una pesadilla.

memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is.

I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously...That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension

a memória é frágil e o trânsito de uma vida é muito breve e sucede tudo tão depressa que não conseguimos ver a relação entre os acontecimentos na ficção do tempo, no presente, no passado e no futuro (...)

I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously—as the three Mora sisters said, who could see the spirits of all eras mingled in space.