“You are there and to their ears, being a Syrian sounds like you’re unclean, shameful, indecent; it’s like you owe the world… — Asaad Almohammad Copy Share Image
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking:… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
“If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to… — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
“It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage… — A.J. Waines Copy Share Image
Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I’m always thrilled,” wrote Alan Cheuse, emphasizing the novelty and, perhaps, the faint air of slumming that attends the notion of McCarthy’s… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
“Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what… — Patrick Hicks Copy Share Image
Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“I shook Alan’s hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you’re looking for what to… — Pamela Alvarado Copy Share Image
“Humph! A text message that said, ‘What’s up, sexy?’ You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the… — N. Wood Lane Copy Share Image
“He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline.… — Rebecca Berto Copy Share Image
Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn’t a heap of decayed garbage or that of… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
“Generally, you have to love someone else a lot to keep carrying on like that, I thought. To have nothing and no… — Michael Reed Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining. — Lester del Rey Copy Share Image
Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or… — Janet Street-Porter Copy Share Image
For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and… — Heather O'Brien Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“fiction started up, and we started burning brain cells on stories about things that didn’t happen to people who didn’t exist. Why?… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville Copy Share Image
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
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![“[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.” quote by Lester del Rey](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/aad/lester-del-rey-102848_deals_science-fiction-is-the-attempt-to-deal-r_1099534.jpg)
