Fiction Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Art, World, Truest

  C. J. Cherryh (2005). “The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh”, Daw Books

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• In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

  Janet Leigh

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

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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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• I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

  Sarah Zettel

  Writing, Science, Research

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• Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Writing, Effort, Quality

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane. Chapter 1, 1935.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  Jack Vance

  Science, Sake, Science Fiction

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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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• I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

  Robert Sheckley

  Science, Critics, Whole

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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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• 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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• I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

  Don DeLillo

  Jobs, Writing, Want

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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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• People who love science fiction really do love sex.

  Susie Bright

  Sex, People, Science Love

  "Bright Ideas". Interview with Tamara Wieder, February 11, 2005.

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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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