It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person’s hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I’m in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.

We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.

Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

No formal course in fiction writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

Every autobiography…becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

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.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction … for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Science fiction writers thought it would be possible. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and other authors found ways to get people to the moon. But none of those writers foresaw any possibility of the lunar explorers being able to communicate with Earth, transmit data, position information, or transmit moving pictures of what they saw back to Earth. The authors foresaw my part of the adventure, but your part was beyond their comprehension.

I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.

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

Real life, in my opinion, is preferable to fiction.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth

I don’t like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I’m reading.