Imaginative Fiction Quotes

#1. I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape ... . If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.

M. John Harrison

#2. I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Danielle Trussoni

#3. I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

J.G. Ballard

#4. We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction.

Mary McDermott Shideler

#5. The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Herman Wouk

#7. The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Herman Wouk

#8. To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. He wanted to laugh at the poetic justice of it all. After a couple of years of chasing after women and then a decade of having them chase after him, he'd finally been brought down by a slip of a girl, fresh out of Cornwall, whom he was honor-bound to protect.

Julia Quinn

#10. Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Hugo Gernsback

#11. I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

Zoe Saldana

#12. About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": "What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.

Belinda Jack

#13. It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them.

Eduardo Galeano

#14. Everything I know now ... the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything ... it taught me and made stronger.

Ray Allen

#15. Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

Naomi Novik

#16. The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. Technology has now enabled a type of ubiquitous surveillance that had previously been the province of only the most imaginative science fiction writers.

Glenn Greenwald

#18. Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Oscar Wilde

#19. I am making an argument for the cyborg as a fiction mapping our social and bodily reality and as an imaginative resource suggesting some very fruitful couplings. Michael Foucault's biopolitics is a flaccid premonition of cyborg politics, a very open field.

Donna J. Haraway

#20. Her hand holding his for a dozen paces. His, resting on the small of her back for a moment. Touches that had no real purpose but to say I'm here and We are together still.

Veronica Rossi

#21. Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.

David Brin

#22. Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

S.A. Tawks

#23. I guess a bit part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.

David Foster Wallace

#24. There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Rita Mae Brown

#25. I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

Ellen Datlow

#26. The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Paul Krugman

#27. Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.

T. J. Jackson Lears

#28. I think fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
-Imagination & Community

Marilynne Robinson

#29. But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over ... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.

Damien Hirst

#30. I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

Scotty McCreery

#31. If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.

Henryk Skolimowski