Quotes About Fiction

All historical novels are science fiction since they are about time travel

novelists only Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jorge Luis Borges have

I idealize you in fiction because I idealized you in real life," he continued.

Shane wasn't far removed from the man he'd been when he passed out on Gayle King's shoulder as Jesse Williams announced that he'd won the 2009 NAACP Award for Outstanding Fiction.

Is Eight based on a real person? You describe her so intimately. It's like I'm peeking in on something I shouldn't see." "Do you think Eight's real?" "Definitely," she said, nodding. "Then she is." "That's not an answer." "I know." He grinned.

The concept of 'father' just feels made up, like Santa or the Easter Bunny.

Had they been living in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Angelica would have been Jane Bennet and Eliza, Eliza.

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After I started writing crime fiction, I said to myself, 'I may be limited, but the genre's not. There's no reason to change genres if I'm happy writing what I write.' And I am.

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 like 'Detective Frost.'

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.

Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.