Fiction And Reality Quotes

I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it's the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.