“So if I asked you to wear my skirt and juggle my high heels, you would?” I joked. I could only see… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“What were the conditions in which women lived, I asked myself; for fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
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“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What’s going on?” Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.” She pulled a chair out and sat down. Faye stared at her… — Taylor Keys Copy Share Image
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“Standing in front of the white picket fence, I stared at the multitude of champagne roses weaving their hunter green vines gracefully… — Leah Lozano Copy Share Image
“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now… — Theasa Tuohy Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It was the afternoon in the city of Orlando, Florida. Amid the hustle and bustle, the cafe next door to a strip… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
“I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense.… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out… — Dave Robinson Copy Share Image
“He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jon Land writes great fiction, and Betrayal reads like the best of it. The fact that it's true makes the story all… — Robert Leuci Copy Share Image
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