#fiction

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. ↗

— Amy Tan

#because #discouragement #encouragement #family #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

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

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#another #fiction #form #just #moment

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#dramatic #fiction #his #love #love stories

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

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#fact #fiction #general #i #i love

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#been #enthusiast #fiction #i #science