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I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to mak... SARAH DESSEN
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not nee... J. G. BALLARD
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need ... J. G. BALLARD
Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without th... C.S. LEWIS
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction. SLAVOJ ŽIžEK
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprun... J. G. BALLARD
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers deal... WALTER MOSLEY It's almost like he was given an opportunity to say goodbye to people without knowing it.
GREG OLSON I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of co...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction write...
TAHMOH PENIKETT
In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in fo... RAY BRADBURY
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing ... WALTER MOSLEY By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
JANETTE RALLISON
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without be... MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. TOM CLANCY I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen...
EMILY PERKINS
The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and t... FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ... BARRY EISLER
I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction. HILL HARPER Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
JACK MCDEVITT I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ...
SHARON OLDS Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
EUDORA WELTY
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. JESSAMYN WEST
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. JESSAMYN WEST
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. JESSAMYN WEST
Good fiction creates its own reality. NORA ROBERTS Reality is being reflected by fiction
ERIK VAN ZANEN The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!
ELI OF KITTIM Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for...
GARRY DISHER
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. WILLIAM GIBSON
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised... ALAIN DE BOTTON
Where does fiction end and reality begin? DEAN KOONTZ I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
FRANCINE PROSE This fiction of reality is becoming merely an essence of metaphysical imagination.
PAUL JAMES SPRY
You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... DEYTH BANGER I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.
ELEANOR CATTON
Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of realit... SHANNON L. ALDER
Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories an... DONNA GODDARD Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
PHILIP K. DICK
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. ... EMILE DURKHEIM Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this ...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he...
LEE GUTKIND
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. THOMAS CARLYLE If something truly unimaginable can happen, it can only do it in the material reality. This is why t...
JAIRO FERNáNDEZ
Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures. JESSAMYN WEST
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequate... JEAN PIAGET
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just anothe... STEVEN SODERBERGH
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to... YANN MARTEL I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al...
TRACY KIDDER Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.
JUSTIN ALCALA Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its...
MICHAEL RICHARDSON Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. VERNOR VINGE
I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met. ROBERT SILVERBERG Almost 50 percent of the work actors used to do for television is gone. Broadcast stations are all a...
CARI SHAYNE
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowin... FRANK HERBERT
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an... JOHN SCALZI
Many of us will die for science without knowing it. GERHARD KOCHER
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aes... STEVEN SODERBERGH There may always be another reality to make fiction of the one we live in.
AARON FRANKS Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each o...
BRITTANY CAVALLARO Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgeme...
MARC CARROGGIO I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG
The writer who position is Christian, and probably also the writer whose position is not, will begin... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
SHERI S. TEPPER Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
RUDY RUCKER
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fert... ALAN LIGHTMAN Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear...
PATRICIA POLACCO
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never... ISABEL ALLENDE
Don't cross the boundaries. ANONYMOUS We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentr...
STANISłAW LEM
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which m... YANN MARTEL
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need ... RAYMOND CHANDLER
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed KURT VONNEGUT JR.
Adorn your beauty with elegant fashion and embellish it with a genuine smile of pride. WAYNE CHIRISA You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your...
DAVID TWOHY
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are... NEIL GAIMAN
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevi... ISAAC ASIMOV
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevit... ISAAC ASIMOV Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a livi...
JANETTE RALLISON
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. IVANA TRUMP
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. RALPH ELLISON
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... TERRY PRATCHETT
'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality. ELLEN STOFAN
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s... ALDOUS HUXLEY
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. CONFUCIUS
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more. CONFUCIUS
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men CONFUCIUS
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to... EDWARD HIRSCH
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions... SLAVOJ ŽIžEK I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
MALORIE BLACKMAN
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than rea... JACQUES BARZUN
What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the ... MAX MULLER A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction
is better than th...
EUGENE CHAPUS
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. YOUNG-HA KIM What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual ...
CLAUDE CALAME
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the histo... RAY BRADBURY
