Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“C, it was like my breath was stolen. My heart seemed to merge with yours. When you came into my life, all… — J.L. Clayton Copy Share Image
“Sabrina Thomas clutched the leather-bound notebook to her chest and tried not to be impatient as the elevator in the south tower… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I unlocked the deadbolt and flung the door open, stepping back for Gabby to see exactly who it was. “Hello, Sara,” I… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Lyly screamed and ran to Tyler. “I can’t let you go until I tell you.” “Tell me what?” Tyler asked. “You’re the… — Mary K. Savarese Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Well, I would tell Danny. I'd probably edit for Josh. That is if there was anything worth editing. “Joshua Roberts, you had… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all -why should I? Even though they were not considered top… — John Agar Copy Share Image
This is our most complete record by far. A Hundred Million Suns sounds like the marriage of everything we learned from the… — Gary Lightbody Copy Share Image
“He pulled me toward him, and all I could do was stand there with arms at my sides and head against his… — Jodi LaPalm Copy Share Image
“I’m a storyteller. I’ll work to make you believe me. Throw in some real stuff, change a few details, add the certainty… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling… — Ben Burtt Copy Share Image
“Why would I what?” Will asked, wanting another bite of his burger. “Why would you risk your job teaching some stupid fantasy… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain… — Lise Sarfati Copy Share Image
“You remember?' he said incredulously. 'What could you possibly remember?' he asked, staring at her, waiting for the answer. The beauty from… — Sebastian Cole Copy Share Image
“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
