3,834 Quotes About Fiction

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.