“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ” — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
“If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all… — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you've ever been covered head to toe in prickle bush, but let me tell you, it's not a… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Okay, this is formally beyond fiction.” Sherri began rocking on the bed. She laughed uncomfortably. “Is there a category beyond fiction? Science… — Gary Williams Copy Share Image
“Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“science fiction is something that could happen—but usually you wouldn’t want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn’t happen—though often you only… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach Copy Share Image
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.” — Charles N. Brown Copy Share Image
“Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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