“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic… — Dr. Teresa Morgan Copy Share Image
I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen King, which is my favorite… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction,… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I have never battled a gargoyle before.” Zacharel shook his head, a dark lock of hair tumbling into one emerald eye. Damp… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
“Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“I know what you’re doing,” he whispered to Raphael, whose movements only became more fervent, and the thought slipped from the boy’s… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival.… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I… — Joe Clifford Faust Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new… — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
“Very few people know this about me, but I’m a sucker for a good romance. I just don’t usually believe they happen… — Kata Čuić Copy Share Image
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