The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“ “Well, Mr. George, I’d say that’s a long way up for us to be worried about a wee 30 feet from away… — Tom Baldwin Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,… — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
“...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the… — Michael Copperman Copy Share Image
I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four… — Paul Verhoeven Copy Share Image
Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it… — Phil Boyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views -… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me… — Nanci Griffith Copy Share Image
In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a species, we tend to live in environments where our own artifacts dominate. The way we shape our environment and are… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What tends to happen when people talk about Chinese sci-fi in the West is that there's a lot of projection. We prefer… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him. I'm more interested in what's meaningful within the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“I had finally become aware of how much I was capable of, how little I had to lose, and how deep into… — Celma Ribeiro Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden, life became too much to bear. Just like that, for no particular reason. Because there was a child’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest… — George R.R Martin Copy Share Image
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for… — James Callis Copy Share Image
“Mmm.” Sebastian moaned. “It’s so delicious.” He laughed then. “It’s not the Poisonous Desert; it’s the Oreo Desert.” He scooped up handfuls… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
