I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!” -Arista” — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
“We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I think, when you are writing non-fiction, you feel there's an obligation to get it absolutely right, so all your factual details… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable and then, eventually, another… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't impose political responsibilities on my fiction. The last thing I would ever want to do, for example, is write a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?” Egnatious asked, eyebrows furrowed as he watched Gabriella do a flip. Firen mimicked Gabriella and turned to Egnatious.… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth — Richard Gerber Copy Share Image
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says? — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story! — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
“All lives are interesting.One of the tasks of fiction, is to prove it.” — A.D. Miller Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the field that explores how change can affect us, for well or ill. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
“To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams” — Rob Shepherd Copy Share Image
“The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
