The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
“Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the… — Philip Roberts Copy Share Image
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“I‘ve always agreed with the view that — with science fiction — its predictive powers were the least important or least relevant… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“we read fiction to satisfy a more basic need—to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling.… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
“She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the… — Laura Harrington Copy Share Image
“I wonder, what kind of life would I have had if it hadn’t been for my mother’s tea-and-cookie parties? Perhaps it’s because… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“Ridley nodded. 'She told me I couldn't ever tell General Harding or anybody else. Told me I wouldn't be safe.' 'Safe?' Uncle… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about… — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Aging and the prospect of dying by no means enhance the attractiveness of fictitious comforts to come in paradise, or the veracity… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“Beneath Albright’s office, the colliery sprawled across the hillside, red brick buildings scattered as though hurled from a great height, a hotchpotch… — Kit Habianic Copy Share Image
I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
“It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them? There's something attractive about all those… — John Varley Copy Share Image
“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author’s… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
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