Quotes by Fiction Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present. A. A. Gill way fiction past I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. A. E. van Vogt science fiction years Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction. A. S. Byatt self lying fiction Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch. Aaron Taylor-Johnson watches fiction years In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one. Abbas Kiarostami good-movie mind fiction Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. Abraham Cowley fables lying fiction I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I'm developing and learning. Adam Ross anxiety suffering fiction fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. Agatha Christie people fiction thinking It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything. Agnes Repplier novelists office fiction They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them! Al-Maʿarri religious book fiction A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. Alaa Al Aswany voice book fiction I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel. Alain de Botton uncomfortable writing fiction I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us. Alaina Huffman mainstream technology fiction I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it. Alan Cheuse writing fiction thinking All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. Alan Lightman work-family roots fiction In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers. Alan Lightman groups writing fiction I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas. Alan Lightman essays jay-gould fiction I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists. Alastair Reynolds scientist struggle fiction Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. Albert Camus telling-the-truth lying fiction The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. Aldous Huxley rivers reality fiction 1234567891011»
