Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.” — Andri E. Elia Copy Share Image
“You are thinking in human terms again, and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...” — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks,… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
I love sci-fi and period pieces - it's fantasy. I can let myself dream a little bit. But also, I just really… — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre:… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
“Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them” — Justyn Simon Copy Share Image
“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.” — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“My own blood always tasted disappointing. I wondered if it tasted that way to God too.” — Eli Wilde Copy Share Image
That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“My thoughts are free to go anywhere,but its suprising how often they head in your direction” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March Copy Share Image
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” — Kristen Reed Copy Share Image
