I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“A brave new future had been charted, and none of them knew where it was going to lead. From my upcoming novel,Frontiers,… — Jeff W. Horton Copy Share Image
“He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction:… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“-Oye, dice ese chico que por qué no termino el bachillerato- dijo ella de pronto, mirándole en el espejo. -¿Qué chico? -Ese… — Carmen Martín Gaite Copy Share Image
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis,… — John Clute Copy Share Image
Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
“It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the… — Toni Blake Copy Share Image
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the… — Henry Eliot Copy Share Image
The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to… — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“I longed to have my mama come to me and sing me a song that settled me down while she rubbed my… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the… — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
“I know he says it’s a mind upload problem,” said Aideen. “But we won’t know that for sure until we get there.… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their… — Ken O'Neill Copy Share Image
The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
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