Quotes About Fiction

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

FYI: There's no such place as Carmen, San Diego.

While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it's the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.

So I deal in straight-up fiction myself, cause I value my family and friends, and mostly cause I lie a lot anyway.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.

In the Facts to Prophetic Fiction section is a collection of speculative science fiction pieces and short stories including: GODLIKE: The ideal companion for lonely emigrant. EQUALITY: The laws say robots must protect humans, always...? BE HAPPY WHEN WE TAKE OVER: Know your limitations. Are we on the threshold of a new golden age?

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

The point is, you won't necessarily know Whether you're living a science fiction reality.

Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

Hollywood loves aliens.

I looked at him curiously. 'I thought you only read non-fiction and Terry Pratchett?' 'I ran out of anything to read in the hospital and it was that or a lot of ditsy novels about cupcakes and fairy-wing repair shops by the beach.' 'I don't think I've come across the fairy-wing repair shop one,' I mused. 'Probably not: I made it up.' 'Maybe you should write it?' I suggested, then reverted back to the subject in hand.

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

Are you ready to bring back a weapon from another world?

Hugo Strange's downfall.

The things you people can do now!" Unlikely Worlds said. "The stories you make!

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road.

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. -Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)

Truth is not a saga of alarming episodes; it is a detail, usually a small one, that gives a fiction life.

Fiction give life to places in expressive ways that no history book can begin to suggest.