Fiction Quotes - Page 32

• I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

  Charlie Sheen

  Thinking, Addiction, Junk

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Thinking, Historical

  "We heart YA" blog Interview, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

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• While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Inspiration, Character

  Source: www.ftd.com

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• My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President.

  Mark Cuban

  Book, Vacation, Years

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

  Salman Rushdie

  Kind, Instinct

  "Salman Rushdie unleashes the genies in his new novel". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 8, 2015.

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• Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.

  Tom Robbins

  Collective Unconscious, Historical, Facts

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• I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape

  Joan Didion

  Block, Different, Research

  "National Book Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Color, Water

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: alibi.com

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• The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wings, Way, Cliffs

  Source: alibi.com

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• There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

  Ray Bradbury

  Kind, Film, Abomination

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

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• The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Wall, Years

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.126, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

  Ray Bradbury

  Growing Up, Fields, Grows

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Reading, Commitment

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• I still think that of all the people doing top fiction today, John D. MacDonald is the best.He was my model as a kid. If there are people out there that want to write, all you need to do is read 20 of his stories to get an idea what it takes to make a story kick over.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Reality, Past

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Needs, Science Fiction

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Boys, Roots

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

  Nelly Ben Hayoun

  Design, Elements, Boundaries

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Thinking, Technology

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• In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere science fiction. It's cold, hard, metallic reality.

  Peter Singer

  War, Reality, Issues

  "Peter W. Singer’s Killer Robots". Interview with Eric Stoner, www.motherjones.com. January 29, 2009.

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• In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

  Aravind Adiga

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Metaphor, Sci Fi

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• History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

  Peter Singer

  Issues, Looks, Sound

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