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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. V. S. Naipaul

Never, Reveals, Lies

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

Small, Some, Everybody

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

Literature, Found, Truth

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

Movies, Behind, Like

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

New, Always, Frontiers

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

Imagination, More, Quarters

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

Reports, Other, TV

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

Slightly, Still, Like

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. - Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King

Truth, Lie, Inside

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

By The Time, Hundred, Fact

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

Possibilities, Truth, Than

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. Chris Chocola

Income, Fact, Business

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, No Wonder, Than

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

Space, Thought, Before

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

Other, Bible, Read

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

Virtual, Other, Own

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

Face, His, Woman

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. Barbara Kingsolver

Through, Empathy, Another

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. Marion Zimmer Bradley

Mind, Encourages, Explore

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology. Ann Leckie

Linguistics, Anthropology

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing. Jacqueline Winspear

Think, I Think, Historical

After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors. Ma Jian

Politics, Placed, Works

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. Jimi Hendrix

Rest, Painted, Science

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

Literary, About, Untrue

For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur in my mind. Everything became a visual memory for me. I carried my Leica camera, giving opportunity to take pictures from my view. John Van Hamersveld

Became, Hollywood, Memory

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it. Wesley Snipes

Other, Study, Why

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