I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm… — Brandon Routh Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
“Joseph, you’re out of clean towels.” Lucia poked her head into the living room, the rest of her hidden behind the wall.… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone had thrown him… — Tekoa Manning Copy Share Image
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I take you? Why is it so hard? You have the other half of my soul; with you I will… — J.L. Clayton Copy Share Image
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars'… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
“I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they… — Christopher Harris Copy Share Image
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“The term 'Erotic Fiction' is interesting to me. The 'Fiction' part. Cuz right now somewhere in the world it's happening just as… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn.… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out… — Jeff Probst Copy Share Image
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd.… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“We're in a strange relationship with our fiction, you see. Sometimes we fear it's taking us over, sometimes we beg to be… — Warren Ellis Planetary Vol. 2 The Fourth Man Copy Share Image
“I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!' 'And I’ve tried living without you, and it… — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on… — Peter David Copy Share Image
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
