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

Science, Problems, Inevitable, May

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, Writer, Historical

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, Literature, Mask, You, True

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, Meaning, Feelings, Film

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us. Gillian Cross

People, Powerful, Understand, Way, Us

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain

Truth, Truth Is, Possibilities, Stranger

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

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. - Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King

Truth, Lie, Inside

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same. Steven Wright

Reading, Bible, Glasses, Same, Twice

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. Leslie Cockburn

Journey, War, Vision, Wilderness, You

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position. Nancy Kress

Words, Building, Blossom, Individual

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, Wolves, American, Gray

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, Gender, Present

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron

Truth, Truth Is, Strange, Always, Than

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. Jack Kerouac

Life, People, True, Symbolism, Tell

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true. Steven Spielberg

Science, Remember, Think, Feeling, True

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach. Ray Kurzweil

Science, People, Conflict, Tools, You

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, Art, Science, World, Impossible

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth, Reality, Reveals

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

Dreams, Good, Music, Keep Going, Memory

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Ursula K. Le Guin

Technology, Science, Science Fiction

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. - William Blake

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. William Blake

World, You, Will, Up, Contradiction

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, Good And Evil, Evil, Face, Mystery

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people. J. Michael Straczynski

Future, Science, People, Society, Stand

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons. Lin-Manuel Miranda

Best, Villain, Bad, Try, Guy, Got

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