Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it.… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a… — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my specialty. But since I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to ruin any chances of leading a happy life. The first is to chase a goal twenty-four hours… — Ali Sheikh Copy Share Image
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“It’s complicated,” I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender. “Talk slowly,” Jenna retorted derisively. “Okay, I deserved that,” I… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come,… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the… — Faran Tahir Copy Share Image
In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college,… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
“You’re also finding out something as you read that will be vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
“HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way… — Kristina Riggle Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
