Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical. — Tahmoh Penikett Copy Share Image
I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Sinuhe, my friend, we have been born into strange times. Everything is melting – changing its shape – like clay on a… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.” — T.R. Wallace Copy Share Image
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma” — P.T. Macias Copy Share Image
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. — Lily King Copy Share Image
“May was the best person I ever knew.... She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be.… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje 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
“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
