My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“[Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero--a father who'd risked his life to rescue his… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“There was clairvoyance to their words and a tenderness in their inflections that instilled even in the most cynical of male hearts… — Eric Monsky Copy Share Image
“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to… — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“You can’t blame yourself for what Socrates did. Those birds came because he wanted them to come, at least a part of… — Ken Goldman Copy Share Image
[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible. — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things,… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“Murder, gambling, and beating up women doesn't illicit my sympathy, no matter what kind of language you dress it in.” — Albert Waitt Copy Share Image
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
“(M)emories are often amalgams of truth and fiction, sewn together in our heads by our subconscious to support our personal beliefs about… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I… — Yelle Hughes Copy Share Image
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.” — Jonathan Heatt Copy Share Image
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done… — Michael O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam… — Steven-Elliot Altman Copy Share Image
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
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