Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon. — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
I was always into science fiction and I always liked sci-fi. Aliens! Spaceships! And all that stuff. — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
“We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.” — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Jake's fury rose and nearly choked him. He pushed the words through barred teeth, “I'm afraid I can't agree with you, Marshal.”… — Willowy Whisper Copy Share Image
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Yet the upcoming year was going to be a new phase of my life. I would get to follow my big brother to the big house. I had reached that golden age of six. Finally, I was going to experience the real deal. This was no appetizer, or tater tots, or French fries. This was the whole Ore-Ida.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
“You've got the wrong girl." "On the contrary..." the voice murmured, "I've got exactly the girl I want." Her body turned to… — Richie Tankersley Cusick Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging,… — Alberto Savinio Copy Share Image
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea. — Cameron Winklevoss Copy Share Image
“Some Marauders do do that, but not the smart ones.” Ivy giggles. “I said, doo-doo.” — S.G. Blaise Copy Share Image
Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them. — Sarah Douglas Copy Share Image
“I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black” — M.C. Webb Copy Share Image
“Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.” — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them. — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“(there is no pepper on the table; evidently pepper perks the libido),” — Tom Hillman Copy Share Image
