It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
“Help me out,” I pleaded. “You’ve left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we’re being dealt the consequences.” I… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict -… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" -… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go… — Stella Maeve Copy Share Image
The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs… — Roky Erickson Copy Share Image
As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other,… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“Captain Miller, we know that you are connected with military intelligence, and can obtain classified documents.” — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.” — Ken Andersen Copy Share Image
