It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
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To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have… — George Takei Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model… — Tom Segalstad Copy Share Image
I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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“What the best fiction does is make powerful affirmations of familiar truths...the trivial fiction which times filters out is that which either… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe,… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then 'Pride and Prejudice' is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
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You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
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