Fiction writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously…

“Writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously; they are only daydreamers who daydream better than most.”

— flavia

“How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who…

— Stephen Richards

“No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

— Walter Mosley

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always…

— Cate Marvin

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

— Philip K. Dick

Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and touchstones employed…

— Paul Di Filippo

“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely…

— Donna Goddard

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way…

— Isaac Asimov

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses,…

— Flannery O'Connor

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine what your…

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett