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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. Gao Xingjian

Life, Truth, Mask, You, Literature, True

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

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

Truth, Truth Is, Wonder, Stranger, Sense

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury

Change, Science, Art, Writing, Small

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. Simone Weil

Life, Imagination, Three, Real Life, Up

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. Stephen Hawking

Time, Science, Travel, Space, Thought

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. Isaac Asimov

Science, Problems, Science Fiction, May

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. - Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. Oscar Wilde

Work, Man, Woman, Face, Her, His

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. Stanley Kubrick

Music, Movies, Feelings, Meaning, Film

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen. Muhammad Yunus

Life, Mind, Society, Poverty, Free, You

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. Marco Tempest

Death, Obstacles, Loss, Magic, Creation

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing. Robert Jordan

Good, Evil, Good And Evil, Face, Mystery

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron

Truth, Truth Is, Strange, Always, Than

Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people. Palmer Luckey

Science, Snow, People, World, Reality

Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. H. P. Lovecraft

Great, Picture, Action, Story, Weird

All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish. N. K. Jemisin

Age, Science, People, Process, Horror

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going. Trudi Canavan

Music, Dreams, Keep Going, Day, Good

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. - Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King

Truth, Lie, Inside

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf

Life, Spider, Four, Web, Like, Still

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly. James Gunn

Change, Future, Science, Problems, Race

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth. Jewell Parker Rhodes

Love, Truth, Create, Emotional, Because

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it. George R. R. Martin

Truth, Science, People, Writing, Mystery

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. Mark Zuckerberg

Time, Think, People, Computers, Story

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning. Ben Shapiro

Character, Man, End, Hunting, Find, Thug

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. Nora Roberts

Women, Men, Kind, Real, Same, Romance

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. Ridley Scott

Science, Unknown, Searching, New, Always

For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. Lydia Millet

Time, Government, American, Wolves, Gray

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