#fiction

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#distinguish #fiction #i #inferiority #nonfiction

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. ↗

— Julian May

#brain #ceases #fiction #human #human race

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#author #awesome #believe #books #dare

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light. ↗

— Leonard S. Marcus

#fantasy #fiction #on-fiction #imagination

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#because #drops #fascinated #favorite #fiction

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie. ↗

— Jean Rouch

#fiction #lies #reality #truth #art

A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth. ↗

— Declan Kiberd

#james-joyce #joyce #literature #ulysses #art

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#bottom #courage #cowardice #easier #enter

I think you have bits of Primord in your hair...And you look …bloody...You look a mess, Halíka...But you are still the most beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes on. ↗

— Alexandra May

#love #science-fiction #war-romance #beauty

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#death #fiction #i #life #reality