Quotes about Fiction

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

People have always wanted answers to the big questions. Where did we come from? How did the universe begin? What is the meaning and design behind it all? Is there anyone out there? The creation accounts of the past now seem less relevant and credible. They have been replaced by a variety of what can only be called superstitions, ranging from New Age to Star Trek. But real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying.

I laugh at anyone who spends so much time writing about what doesn't exist - mental concepts.

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.