“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“The truth is she can’t stand fiction; she gets impatient with novelists’ absurd farces; let’s pretend there was once a world that… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“It hurts,” Summer cries, head shaking back and forth. “Please, make it stop.” Sweat beads on her forehead. “What hurts?” Cameron asks.… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I’m fighting a losing battle. I can’t tell this story the way it should be told. This whole hotchpotch of characters, events,… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“So, you know that group up there in the Planetarium then?’ The pistol continued. ‘Hey they say it’s a small world.’ ‘Are… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
“Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me… — Hannah Blatchford Copy Share Image
Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions. — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.” — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all… — Ed Speleers 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
“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
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