One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers. — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“What could I do in the country, Frank? You want me to be a milkmaid or something. No, I’ll take my chances… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better… — Marcy Dermansky Copy Share Image
“Asimov received frequent criticism about his books that they never included aliens or sex, so Asimov included in this book aliens, sex,… — Conor Lastowka Copy Share Image
Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“My motto? Don’t trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself." "What kind of detective are you?” “A lousy one and… — Peggy A. Edelheit Copy Share Image
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“You, my reader, who see me close, wonder about my heartbeats and measure my words, you my close friend who know my… — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it.… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
The DC Universe has the best villains in fiction, right? I don't think there's any group of villains collectively or anywhere else… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“You are not the first person to come here, and you will most likely not be the last. Many souls have arrived… — Rebecca Harlem Copy Share Image
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes i just get bored live in real life, so i will hide my self in to the fiction by writing and… — Vindri Prachmitasari Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I would love to see a story set in the distant future, in a different galaxy/universe, to see whether the human race… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation.… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
“As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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