Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction. — Nelly Ben Hayoun Copy Share Image
The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts. — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library. — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction,… — Meredith Vieira Copy Share Image
“See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...” — Jodi LaPalm Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“If a wizard should take up residence in your garden, and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.” — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
