It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Yako went to the boxes holding Lilly and Candice, undid the bungee cords, and opened them. She used smelling salts to arouse… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.' — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world.… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other… — Nicola Chiaromonte Copy Share Image
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“In this strife-torn valley, I have always been tormented by feelings of indefinite and eternal uncertainty. "The Half Mother" is an outcome… — Shahnaz Bashir Copy Share Image
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and… — Joe Wilson Copy Share Image
“...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
