It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
“I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished… — Rahul Rampal Copy Share Image
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Here’s what happens when a single mom meets New York City’s hottest fireman… “Then…seductively…as if he received instruction not from the FDNY’s… — Isabella Johns Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.” — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
A lot of science fiction is very accessible and very readable, but a lot of people are justifiably put off by the… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt… — David Sloma Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph… — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
