I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
“He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting,… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . .… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late.… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the… — Laura Harrington Copy Share Image
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
People don't care about facts anyway; in my country, we have 'alternative facts.' But if you can make somebody feel something -… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
From fiction, you do not get to learn much because it is only imagination. Whereas, from non-fiction, people can understand and learn… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, science fiction became a tool for popularizing scientific knowledge, and its main intended… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Ah yes, now you’re beginning to feel it. It’s so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of… — Jaye Frances Copy Share Image
Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how… — Pauline Clarke Copy Share Image
“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.” — Manoj Vaz Copy Share Image
When I'm absorbed in a work of fiction, time and place melts away, as though I've drifted away from my usual reality… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
