So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a set of observable manifestations, as represented and frozen in language, that triggers a profoundly subjective and individual experience. Ultimately,… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to… — Levi Grossman Copy Share Image
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them… — Saskia Walker Copy Share Image
Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility,… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
“You'll have to learn to forgive," he said. "For if you don't, you know what will happen?" "What, Doctor?" I croaked, for… — Patrick McCabe Copy Share Image
“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films… — Harry Knowles Copy Share Image
“Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel in a life so crammed with busy years,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Ann Patchett about the lack of a fiction Pulitzer winner this year. "Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important.… — Lynne Marshall Copy Share Image
“Outside the Bar Del Prado, night was coming on like a hopeless, drunken come-on, tequila on its breath, red neon signs and,… — Michaela Carter Copy Share Image
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sin says, "Do you think that people get married with aspirations to divorce? Do you think that people try drugs with the… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Parables are works of art, specifically, works of short fiction. They are intricately constructed and complex in their intent. In some ways,… — Thomas Nelson Publishers Copy Share Image
“The thought that the Mayan culture managed to calculate the Earth’s passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed… — Jody Summers Copy Share Image
“This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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