“I thought if only we could go on and meet again, shy as strangers.” — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon? — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises. — Gerald Jonas Copy Share Image
“Baby, God ain't gonna bless you with another woman's husband, not today, not tomorrow, not ever.” — Tracy L. Darity Copy Share Image
“Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for… — Gabrielle Black Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of… — Graeme Macrae Burnet Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A… — Leïla Slimani Copy Share Image
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth felt as if every cell in her body was aflame with desire.” — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin Copy Share Image
Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
They say truth is stranger than fiction. If that's true, it's stranger than it would be if it wasn't. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
“...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I ran away to sea. I know that only happens in fiction. But it's what I did. — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction. — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
It may not be 'mainstream,' but there's always a market for science fiction. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.” — Michele W. Miller Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
