“The wise have the mental agility to anticipate and adjust to dire circumstances faster than most.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction. — Diana Ossana Copy Share Image
As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters. — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
“She looked so beautiful, with every smile of hers, I was falling for her. She had the perfect set of teeth for… — Pritam Banikk Copy Share Image
“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Future Politics Effecting change in national politics was mostly a matter of making better use of online forums, encouraging voters to press… — Nancy Omeara Copy Share Image
“I find a tattered copy of 1984. I open the book and read a little. Of course it is fiction, but the… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
