Fiction Quotes

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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

Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.

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

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

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.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

In an infinite multiverse, there is no such thing as fiction.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

Anything processed by memory is fiction.