Fiction Quotes

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. (Tom Clancy)
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Every writer wants to be believed. But every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. View quote
John le Carré
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. View quote
Brian Aldiss
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. View quote
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. View quote
Nancy Thayer
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. (John Updike)
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. View quote
Charles de Lint
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. View quote
Graham Greene
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. View quote
Susan Sontag
People who love science fiction really do love sex. View quote
Susie Bright
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. View quote
Edward Albee
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
...there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. (Ralph Ellison)
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. View quote
David Brin
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. View quote
Isaac Asimov