“She knew this day was different and worse, much worse than before. This was the day that Bethany began to believe their… — Katie Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“…Mellor’s statement is extremist in two directions: human civilization is in imminent peril, and only one solution will work. I doubt both… — Richard T Nash Copy Share Image
“The blind faith in some half-assed conspiracy theories lines up with the logic of having to believe in something with no questions… — Asaad Almohammad Copy Share Image
“«“I meant, tell me all about this steampunk thing!” Gavin broke in. “How does that concept work out for you people, here… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in,… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
“Let’s all try to be fearless, sometimes we wish for the most perfect of outcomes and we arrive at the most unforgettable.… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting… — Janet Morris 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 told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac Mccarthy Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous 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
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
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 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
“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will,… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws.… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Joe wished it had all been just a dream. To think of planes crashing into impossibly-tall towers, of bombs taking out eyes… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated… — Linda Leigh Hargrove Copy Share Image
I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The days I’d passed with my mom before she died were still there, it seemed, seared into the corners of my heart.… — banana yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Arvid reste sig för att gå. —Nej, sitt! –sitt!, sitt!—. Om någon hund varit närvarande, skulle han genast suttit.” // “Arvid se… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
