Fiction Quotations | Page 2

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

The producers of this ad are playing off fictional fears to create pressure for their point of view on legislative reality. I think it's unique.

I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.

Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether.

The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.