Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Alleghany Corp. v. Breswick & Co., 353 U.S. 151, 170 (1957).
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“Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: Science Fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
“A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.”
Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright
The New York Times (18 September 1966)
“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”
Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.”
Clive Barker (1952) author, film director and visual artist
Next Testament (Boom Studios, 2014)
George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
Interview with Weird Tales (24 May 2007) http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2007/05/24/george-rr-martin-on-magic-vs-science/ <br class="br">Context: I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep. I know there are elements in the field, particularly in science fiction, who feel that the differences are very profound, but I do not agree with that analysis. I think for me it is a matter of the furnishings. An elf or an alien may in some ways fulfill the same function, as a literary trope. It’s almost a matter of flavor. The ice cream can be chocolate or it can be strawberry, but it’s still ice cream. The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Boston Book Review interview by Harvey Blume http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html (February 1998)
“The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.”
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author
Attributed to an interview on Larry King Live; also quoted in Quotable Quotes (1997) edited by Deborah Deford
Attributed variant: The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
Clancy here expresses an idea evoked in similar statements made by others, all derived from the orignial made by Lord Byron:
Lord Byron: Truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't.
G. K. Chesterton: Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Leo Rosten: Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. (attributed)
1990s
“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.”
Shirley Abbott (1934)
Quoted in Mickey Pearlman, Listen to Their Voices (1993), ch. 12