A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Arvid reste sig för att gå. —Nej, sitt! –sitt!, sitt!—. Om någon hund varit närvarande, skulle han genast suttit.” // “Arvid se… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“So if I asked you to wear my skirt and juggle my high heels, you would?” I joked. I could only see… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated… — Linda Leigh Hargrove Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The days I’d passed with my mom before she died were still there, it seemed, seared into the corners of my heart.… — banana yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws.… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
“Joe wished it had all been just a dream. To think of planes crashing into impossibly-tall towers, of bombs taking out eyes… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will,… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“What’s going on?” Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.” She pulled a chair out and sat down. Faye stared at her… — Taylor Keys Copy Share Image
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
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“What were the conditions in which women lived, I asked myself; for fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
“So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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“Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,” chirped Wendy. “No, he hasn’t.” Adam denied it. “He’s in the house. Now, look, what’s all this… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that… — Edwin Fontanez Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
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We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms… — Cristina Martin Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
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