I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction.… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Atlantis sinks. Serves it right. Red hates the place. For one thing, there are so many Atlantises, always sinking, in so many… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
“Being mindful of Aunt Kathy’s presence, I turned to reading the Bible while sitting in the living room. It was my way ofkeeping my aunt at bay. Yet, my facade didn’t sustain me for long. I got called to the dining table anyway. Next, I was told to follow Jerry’s instructions once we left the house.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Movie. What's my favorite kind of movie?” “Is there a point to this?” “Please, Lucy. What's my favorite movie?” “Horror. Why?” “No… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one,… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of fiction film where you have a story and you have to transform that into a visual language,… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying.… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead,… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
“There’s an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“We need the Fallen Legion,” I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her. “And I need an… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something… — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“ In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“It is not so much as to say that something has occured; but to describe the very essence of the occurance. One… — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
![“Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying. It's an exhausting experience and, even 18 years after its release (as I write this review), few films have matched it within the science fiction genre for…” quote by James Berardinelli](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/773/james-berardinelli-18367_exhausting_although-the-terminator-is-arguably-the_1946306.jpg)
