I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he… — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
These claims [about me of inappropriate conduct with women] are all fabricated. They're pure fiction and they're outright lies. These events never,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“The things that happen in fiction mirror those things that have happened ---or will happen soon --- in real life.” — Bill Granger Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.' — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers… — S.A. Reid Copy Share Image
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