Fiction Novels Quotes

• It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

  Jane Austen

  Thorough Knowledge, Mind, World

  Northanger Abbey ch. 5 (1818)

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• Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

  Junot Diaz

  Mean, Asking Questions, Long

  "Junot Díaz Aims To Fulfill His Dream Of Publishing Sci-fi Novel With Monstro". "Wired" Interview, www.wired.com. October 3, 2012.

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• My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dream, Jobs, Dad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became successful, that was all they were allowed to do. So you end up talking to the bestselling science-fiction author who wrote a historical-fiction novel that everybody loved, but no one would publish.

  Neil Gaiman

  Successful, Talking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  Gary Kemp

  Stars, Dad, Book

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• I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Fantasy Novels, Science Fiction, Fiction

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• You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.

  Neil Gaiman

  Future, Pages, Science Fiction

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

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• Fiction novels, that's my game.

  David Benioff

  Games, Fiction, Novel

  Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Thinking, Years, Titles

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• In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Past, Space, People

  " Tourist finds 'paradise' in space", www.cnn.com. May 6, 2001.

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• I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

  Vonda N. McIntyre

  Reading, Firsts, Remember

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• I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Perfect, Stories

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• The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action.

  Al Gore

  Baby, Doctors, Fever

  "Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet". www.washingtonpost.com. March 21, 2007.

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• Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.

  Craig Shaw Gardner

  Stars, Book, Wish

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• Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

  Dana Gould

  Winning, Men, Wife

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