I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out. — Ann-Margret Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.” — Caro Clarke Copy Share Image
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
“If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.” — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“All existence is in vain: unexplained and sterile. I’ll end up alone with all my doubts that will haunt me forever, even… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.” — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a… — George Will Copy Share Image
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg Copy Share Image
“The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you?” — Ade Santi Copy Share Image
I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Just because someone is on your path, it doesn't mean that they're on your journey.” — Lee M. Sapp Copy Share Image
In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
