Quotes About Fiction

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.

("we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story." ~Arthur A. Levine Books (publishers of The Harry Potter series.)) about my book!

For all I know, the guy is Dracula.

Just tell yourself they're only stories. Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations)

SPIDER: I guess you've got a point. RAYNIEDAY: No, I've got a stake, LOL.

Everything you're telling me was just a story, and now it's real.

Fantasy is a wise lie.

Lost…What if all of the folklore elements your grandfather spoke of—actually were?What if there was only a paper thin separation of less than one degree?Who would save you? How would you survive?

I tend to scare myself.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

But the imagination goes beyond the reality in supposition.

But certain favourite parts are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.

several of which are in development as films. His fiction has been nominated for or won an Anthony, Barry, Macavity, Strand Critic's Circle, Readers' Choice, Crimespree, Dilys, Crime Shot, Indie Lit, Romantic Times, and ITW Thriller

Yet every writer worth a good-god damn knows this too, for it is graven into each of us: no one cares for beauty. Not in fiction. Not on its own, not pure, untroubled beauty; not in fiction. [...] For here is the only real difference between the life of reality and the life of fiction. Fiction only works when the beauty is tainted by pain. For fiction is not about life; it's about the troubles of life.

Anything that might occur in 'story-time' could ultimately not be stranger than the utter oddity of the 'real-world.

Temporal grace,' said the Doctor. 'No weapons can function inside the TARDIS – even something as simple as a spear.