Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap.… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me,… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. our magic moment help us to change and sends us off… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“For someone to go from a crown princess-in-waiting to a witch, to a fortune teller, and finally, to an apothecary— that really… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“He takes two steps back. Closer to the portal. I can't stop myself. "Ben," I call. And I'm not even embarrassed about… — Elizabeth Norris Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future -… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe they are big. Maybe… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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