Top 1200 Speculative Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

Comedy is like fictional charm. It's the charm of fiction. Or the charisma of fiction. When you meet somebody who's immediately charismatic, you're attracted to that person. And in fiction it's got to come out in either one of two ways: in the prose itself, and you're hooked immediately because you never want to leave such a colorful and penetrating world. Or, it's simply being a funny writer.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

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

If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

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 only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.

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

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.

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

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.