In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics? — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption—that an alien race would… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“We say, "Well, the only answer is…" or, "If you would just. . . ." Whatever follows these two statements narrows the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“According to Mark, it was a custom of the Roman governor during the feast of Passover to release one prisoner to the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“If all that one sees is a tiny speck of perspective in the larger scheme of things. And each perspective is made… — Nikhil Sharda Copy Share Image
“If I could turn my thoughts into spoken words and share them with someone, they’d become real and mean something. Now, they… — Holly Michael Copy Share Image
