Fiction Quotes - Page 6

• I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

  Neil LaBute

  Movie, People, Would Be

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• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

  Frederik Pohl

  Stories, Magazines, Might

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• Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

  David Foster Wallace

  Humans, Human Beings

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• I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Science, World, Way

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• One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Pain, Future, Science

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Mother, Children

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Perfection, Excellence, Wells

  1965 Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

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• Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

  Rudy Rucker

  Character, Work Out, Rude

  "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.

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• I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

  Robert Sheckley

  Stars, War, Science

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• The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

  Chris Chocola

  Reality, Cash Flow, Balance

  "Entrepreneurial Minds: Clarifying your expectations". Business Week, October 26, 2014.

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• I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

  Fred Saberhagen

  People, Speculative Fiction

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• People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Character, Men, People

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• We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Biographies, Why Not, Economy

  1980 In the NewYork Times, 27 Jul.

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• Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

  Rudy Rucker

  Play, Ideas, Funky

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• Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

  Doris Lessing

  Time, Space, Dialect

  The Guardian (London), November 7, 1988.

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• I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Numbers, Issues

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

  Lindsay Wagner

  Science, Giving, Want

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• I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, Easier, Aspect

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• I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

  Jean M. Auel

  Book, Ideas, Definitions

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• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Keys, Imagination

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.80, A&C Black

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• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Technology, Modern

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.169, Grove Press

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• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Inspirational, Humor, Government

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• Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Writing, Special, Messages

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