Fiction Quotes - Page 29

• This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

  Hooman Majd

  Writing, College, Sound

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• On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

  Marc Forster

  Writing, Scripts, Lines

  "Bond Week Interview: Quantum of Solace Director Marc Forster". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. November 11, 2008.

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• I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.

  Marc Maron

  Discipline, Stories, Seems

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

  Marc Maron

  Bullshit, Curiosity, Fascination

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Fall, Fiction Stories

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Innovation, Brain

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Book, Hero, Want

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• Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction or non-fiction) and how books have allowed us to broaden our vocabulary.

  Tom Robinson

  Book, Taken, Thinking

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• Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Ideas, Exploration

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

  Anne Enright

  Way Forward, People, Great Friend

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Philosophical, People, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters.

  Ann M. Martin

  Couple, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Daughter, Dad, Father

  "Riddick: Katee Sackhoff Talks Her Life of Sci-Fi Love". www.moviefanatic.com. September 05, 2013.

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• Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

  Katee Sackhoff

  Giving, Fans, Watches

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• I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, World, Because I Can

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• My first and last love will always be fiction. It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night. I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Morning, Fall, Night

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• Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.

  George Hickenlooper

  Art, Real, Creating

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Missing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.

  Michael Chabon

  Records, Fantasy, Vinyl

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

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• While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while the book was fiction, the situations were based on historical realities - some of which were pretty hard to believe.

  Julie Klassen

  Believe, Book, Reality

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• I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

  Drew Roy

  Rap, People, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

  Robin Williams

  Want, Facts, Good Science

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

  Rian Johnson

  Real, Thinking, World

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

  Bill Nye

  Space, Fans, Program

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