When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“I had this guy’s file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado.” Pause. A few… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“He had always liked a good mess—God knows he had sure made a few. In typical form, he squared his shoulders, furrowed… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
As I got older, I really got into hard sci-fi, novels, and movies - things like 'Aliens' and 'Blade Runner' and all… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Anna: “I thought Indians built fires with fiction.” Charles: “I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“In one universe, the human race disappeared. It wasn’t an event of controversy among felinekind because most agreed, 'Good riddance.” — Annabelle Nash Copy Share Image
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction,… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Alas, a fiction can fly around the world before the truth has managed to pick the sleep from its eyes in the… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times. — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
