Quotes by Fiction But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke stranger remember fiction Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke political science fiction Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could. Arthur C. Clarke wish blood fiction Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Arthur C. Clarke detectives wish fiction Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. Arundhati Roy writing beautiful fiction I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise. Arundhati Roy exercise fiction needs As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. Arundhati Roy truest fiction thinking There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. Arundhati Roy concerned division fiction I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors. Augusten Burroughs admire stories fiction Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi real trying fiction What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi epiphany reality fiction Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. B. R. Ambedkar principles may fiction Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. Barbara Kingsolver empathy stranger fiction What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. Barbara Kingsolver humanity people fiction Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin. Barbara Kingsolver magic skins fiction Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. Bell Hooks adults challenges fiction Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction. Ben Browder science-fiction hard fiction Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. Ben H. Winters special fiction I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. Ben Lerner literary-genre dying fiction What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in some other sort of light. Ben Lerner tears light fiction «1234567891011»