If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
Scott Turow
I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the... →
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
David Twohy
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
Jeff Vandermeer
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
Paul Verhoeven