“Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
“But I belong here. I could live here…hiding from the others, living among their consciences and their fears; why not? Could this… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Mark Rosewater wrote: Science fiction, at is core, is about exploring what if. It is literature investigating humanity’s potential. Fantasy, at its… — James M. Corkill Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
“Lewis had said that there is no creativity de novo in us—that we are all sub-creators pirating and rearranging portions of reality.… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.” — T.B. Christensen Copy Share Image
“Every step taken is the first of a new journey. Its up to me if I choose to contine walking or I… — Kia Carrington-Russell Copy Share Image
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
“Thank-you, son,’ said his father. ‘I want you to know we’re both proud of you. Take care, and keep in touch if… — Chris Tinniswood Copy Share Image
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
“Foolish potato, talking to her like that won’t work. You’ve got to be mean and show off your foil-wrapped rigidity.” — Michael Diack Copy Share Image
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
'Siya Ke Ram' being my very first fiction TV show, I've always wanted to do a role that challenges me as an… — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
