Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
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It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“Ridley nodded. 'She told me I couldn't ever tell General Harding or anybody else. Told me I wouldn't be safe.' 'Safe?' Uncle… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
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A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Everything about him screamed in warning, “Caution: dangerous terrain ahead.” A warning that both intrigued and provoked her proceed-at-your-own-risk nature.” — Lotchie Burton Copy Share Image
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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“Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?” With a frown, she said, “I played.” “You took apart… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry to tell you that another Dani was found wandering around the time station in our building, confused and disoriented.” — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
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I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“ “What’s puzzling is the sender wrote, ‘I hope this is helpful for the Tariq’Allah office in Istanbul. Stay in touch.’ Turkey… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
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