What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better… — Hiroshi Ishizaki Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“An ear-splitting screech pierced the silence, followed by another, striking his ears like metal against a hollow bell. The woosh woosh of… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“The calming presence of the forest merged with the beating hearts of the human beings, each of whom was emanating the same… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these… — Kyra Zagorsky Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't even stoop so low as to pull the same trick on him he's pulled on me, because my girl was… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“...and I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were… — Charlotte Rogan Copy Share Image
I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored. — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
“Tangled Moon ~ Sometimes you have to break the rules. Sometimes you have to let go of the past. And sometimes you… — Olivia Stocum Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“It is said that there is never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart. The shroud that… — Swati Kumar Copy Share Image
“Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary… — George Mann Copy Share Image
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you sleep where another person sleeps and do what that person does, then eventually you’ll start turning into that person.” — Jack Cheng Copy Share Image
Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully,… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“. . .but he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it” — Ronie Kendig Copy Share Image
“My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car,… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
“The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the… — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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