“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“In life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t… — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
“Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' the Goodness of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder… — Michael Crummey Copy Share Image
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“...I tried to pretend that what we were enacting was nothing more than an intricate kind of handshake." ~Malcolm” — Kathleen Maher Copy Share Image
I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Life is like a game of cards. Everyone throws his card. And, the result depends on all of those cards. Not on… — Pramod Verma Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time."--Mea Brin, The Huntress” — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
“And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate… — Kathleen McGowan Copy Share Image
Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
![“There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and defense and attack. Martial arts is king in this world. That was the first thing. We didn't want it to be a period piece either. We felt those are…” quote by Miles Millar](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/266/miles-millar-31150_areas_there-s-always-someone-kicking-guns-we-w_2931934.jpg)
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