Quotes
Quotes about Fiction
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. [Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]
The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise. The work she plyed, but, studious of delay, Each following night reversed the toils of day.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! ... HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!
