#fiction

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#modern #modern technology #myth #mythology #science

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#especially #fantasy #fiction #horror #how

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#because #did #dug #fiction #i

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#fiction #i #interested #more #not interested

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#good #how #i #immediately #knew

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#before #could #einstein #fiction #general

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#break #down #else #i #mostly

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#research #story #straightforward #task #tell

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#creativity #dependent #directions #entirely #fiction