I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Sully's, on South Prospect, was the quintessential biker-bar, complete with hefty, leather-clad Harley worshippers, and stringy-haired heroin-addicted women who made the rounds… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
“Burn wounds always elicited pain more terrible than anything else he had ever endured. He didn’t relish the idea of forcing himself… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Where are you taking me?” Andrew demanded, whirling on the Ferryman. His muscles tensed, hands curling in and out of fists. “To… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21,… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
“You're nothing more than a common bully,' he whispered, voice trembling. I'd shaken him for good now, and it was deeper than… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
“With Catty and Patrick's images in he side mirror waving from the steps of that house like Jethro and Ellie Mae, it… — Linda Leigh Hargrove Copy Share Image
I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Here now, in the elsewhen of the SF Café, we’ve had the shenanigans going on for decades, but we haven’t yet adjusted… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters -… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
“She could hear the voice of her childhood, could see a younger version of herself plucking petals off a flower. He loves… — L.A. Kuehlke Copy Share Image
“…Obviously, I have always wished I could remember what happened in that wood. The very few people who know about the whole… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills… — megan abbott Copy Share Image
I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
