Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if fiction got right about vampires-" "Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand," Bones cut him off with utmost seriousness.
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
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..
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.