Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
“I stoped reading science fiction once I saw that the UFO was real. It became science fact that just hasn't been proven… — Mike Bird Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels.… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Here’s what happens when a single mom meets New York City’s hottest fireman… “Then…seductively…as if he received instruction not from the FDNY’s… — Isabella Johns Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science fiction, and it's ingrained, in a certain way, and I've been very involved with Kerouac and… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
“Next morning, we drank endless cups of coffee in the airport restaurant…Suddenly wide-eyed, she stared past me: “Good grief, some of the… — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities,… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power. — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.” — Petra Kidd Copy Share Image
I'm not a reader of young adult fiction for the simple reason that these novelists are writing for adolescents, so they are… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a… — Keahu Kahuanui Copy Share Image
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
“His real name is A.J., but he is known in Heaven as Armor because of how resilient he is in his faith… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
“I have been… To every depth of my heart To every height of my mind To every extent of my world I… — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
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