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Fiction Quotes
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
Imagination
,
Reality
,
Truths
,
Reveals
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Truth
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Truth Is
,
Wonder
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Stranger
,
Sense
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
Good
,
Dreams
,
Music
,
Keep Going
,
Day
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
,
You
,
True
,
Literature
,
Mask
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
Science
,
Time
,
Travel
,
Space
,
Thought
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Good
,
Science
,
Mind
,
Bad
,
Good And Bad
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
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Movies
,
Meaning
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Feelings
,
Theme
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
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Blossom
,
Right
,
Genes
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
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Web
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Four
,
Like
,
Attached
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf
Woman
,
Money
,
She
,
Own
,
Room
,
Her
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
,
Small
,
Writing
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
Mae Jemison
Science
,
Perspective
,
Society
,
Game
Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.
Diana Gabaldon
Things
,
Most
,
Historical
,
Cultural
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
,
Wolves
,
Government
,
American
,
Gray
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Technology
,
Science
,
Science Fiction
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
,
Think
,
Remember
,
True
,
Worth
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake
World
,
You
,
Will
,
Up
,
Made
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
Glasses
,
Bible
,
Reading
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Two
,
Same
,
Pair
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
Kevin J. Anderson
Science
,
Together
,
Football
,
Wine
,
You
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix
Science
,
Imagination
,
Rest
,
Key
,
Little
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
,
You
,
Free
I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.
Nnedi Okorafor
World
,
Magic
,
Smoke
,
Place
,
Magical
,
See
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
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.
John Updike
Value
,
Writing
,
Creative
,
Believe
,
Human
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
Science
,
Man
,
Black
,
Me
,
Universe
,
Why
I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.
Mark Kurlansky
Love
,
Romantic
,
People
,
Tough
,
World
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