“While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
“So now begins the first war with Cordelia' in which I retreat and thereby teach her to be victorious as she pursues… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It is noteworthy that few works of fiction make marriage their central concern. As Northrup Frye puts it, with his accustomed clarity:… — Carolyn G. Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“A big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“Sin’s cold, calculating, and dangerous. She scares the shit outta me. I wouldn’t want to meet her in a dark alley and… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go… — Stella Maeve Copy Share Image
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer.… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Be who you were meant to be and not what you've allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Mavis as she wavered… — Christine M. Knight Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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