The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
“In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction. — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
“Seseorang memang harus jadi munafik untuk merelakan orang yang disayanginya pergi.” — Laili Muttamimah Copy Share Image
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“The Bible may be an arresting and poetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should give… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
“It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The… — Yvonne J. Medley Copy Share Image
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction. — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Science fiction fans are great, but they just aren't the same as groupies. — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction. — Diana Ossana Copy Share Image
As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
“The wise have the mental agility to anticipate and adjust to dire circumstances faster than most.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“What child didn't wish to know if his bedtime stories were the stuff of fiction or of truth?” — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“stories are better than fiction, so let’s hope for some real-life sequels.” — Katherine Ramsland Copy Share Image
Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
