... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which…

perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout…

— Martha Gellhorn

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to…

— Emily Carr

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

— Eckhart Tolle

The silence outside is so loud it could be heard inside.

— Anonymous

“I left them there for the flies and the birds and the sun and the wind. In the silence outside the Tour du Silence,…

— Rick Yancey

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,…

— Trudi Canavan

There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these…

— L.A. Weatherly

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

“The fiction will seek the real.”

— Coheed and Cambria

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

— Edward Einhorn

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

— Octavia Butler

“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to”

— Phil Hogan