I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
“It didn’t belong to anything and nothing belonged to it. It searched for eternities trying to find a host… a carrier… a… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“This use of ordinary people as the principal characters was fairly rare in science fiction when the book came out, and even… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for… — Gabrielle Black Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks,… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
I love sci-fi and period pieces - it's fantasy. I can let myself dream a little bit. But also, I just really… — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
