3,834 Quotes About Fiction

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

We run into science fiction pretty quickly. Those guys get there before we do and then we have to go do it.

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.