While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as…

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,…

— Jess Walter

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think,…

— Annette Bening

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

— Karin Slaughter

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty…

— Stephen King

I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our world, and…

— Simon Kinberg

Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.

— David Grann

Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.

— Charles Bock

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is

— Nancy Kress

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

— Alice Hoffman

If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish…

— Stephen Hawking

“We humans are still a joke in this universe; we are not real, not yet! Universe can annihilate us in seconds! If we want…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The only thing that's real in any universe [is] that brilliant fire of Love that burns to the exclusion of everything else. As we…

— Richard Bach

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

— David Brin