#fiction

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#act #cowboys #fan #feel #fiction

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#imagination #key #little #lyrics #painted

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #obliged #possibilities #stick #stranger

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#face #fiction #her #his #man

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#also #best #covers #creative #huge

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#basic #basic research #doing #get #i

Life is a means of extracting fiction. ↗

— Robert Stone

#fiction #life #life is a #means

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i #prefer #shelter #tend

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #came #discovered #early #fantasy

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#books #did #fiction #i #kept