I completely don't enjoy sci-fi. I have to say that's a genre I'm deeply, deeply not into. I can't - I'm so… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
“Quarantine is real s.f. It is speculative fiction whose adventures of the mind are based in our contemporary understanding of what the… — Karen Burnham Copy Share Image
“I’d always hated cocktail parties. And this one was worse than most. Overdressed pseudo–people smiled plastic smiles, told one–upmanship stories with phony… — Walt Shiel Copy Share Image
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy… — Dee Wallace Copy Share Image
“Laurel look up at him in question, but he wouldn't meet her eyes. She always wished she had more time to draw… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even… — Stefan Grabinski Copy Share Image
“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?” Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.” — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts… — Ian Leslie Copy Share Image
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I was doing 'Balika Vadhu,' and had watched a few Punjabi films. I realised that it's the kind of cinema I want… — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
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