Quotes About Imagination

Science fiction I've always been a fan of.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

I don't read Science Fiction.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

I don't read fiction at all.

I like going back and writing fiction.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.