Quotes and Sayings About Fiction
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
-- A. A. Gill -
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
-- Agatha Christie -
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
-- Al Sharpton -
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!
-- Al-MaʿarriSource : "Studies in Islamic Poetry (The Meditations of Al-Ma'arri)". Book by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, 1921.
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
-- Alaa Al Aswany -
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I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.
-- Alaina HuffmanSource : "Exclusive Interview: Alaina Huffman Talks Smallville, Stargate Universe, and Agent Mom". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. January 27, 2011.
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
-- Alan Lightman -
I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.
-- Alastair ReynoldsSource : "Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. September 5, 2012.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
-- Albert Camus -
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
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The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
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I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
-- Alex Flinn -
I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
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Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
-- Alexandra KerrySource : Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale
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The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
-- Alfred Adler -
In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
-- Alfred Adler -
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Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
-- Alfred BesterSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.
-- Ali Smith -
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
-- Alice Walker -
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
-- Allen GinsbergSource : Quoted in Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (1980)
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
-- Alvin Toffler