Fiction Quotes

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence the concept about which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.

I hate things all fiction… there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric – and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.[La ficción se inventó el día en que Jonás llegó a casa y le dijo a su esposa que había llegado tres días tarde porque había sido tragado por una ballena.]

Fiction pays best of all and when it is of fair quality is more easily sold.

Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till someone had told a story.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Fiction has helped my journalism because it has given it literary value. Journalism has helped my fiction because it has kept me in a close relationship with reality.