Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single… — Piroska Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“Outside of the usual bar or nightclub, it's not every day that I get a drink bought for me-at least not by… — Jason Leclerc Copy Share Image
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. — Rick Baker Copy Share Image
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience. — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people. — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
“It’s a very private moment when your heart breaks. I was thankful we were alone. I knew I couldn’t keep her, but… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
“We need the Fallen Legion,” I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her. “And I need an… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.” — Anthea Syrokou Copy Share Image
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
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