I started reading fantasy and science fiction and writing fantasy and science fiction when I was - when I started junior high… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing… — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
“let’s get our semantics straight. Story does not equal fiction, much less “lies.” It’s the world we Christians inhabit as “people of… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter that these are works of fiction and hence less scientific than the numbers and reports. They describe a human… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“His cell-phone rang. Dominic fumbled for it on the nightstand next to the couch, the dim lights not helping his endeavour. He… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
“The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and… — Marjorie Hudson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger… — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
A sci-fi yarn that ponders the meaning of time and the importance of evolution while occasionally throwing in some shootouts. — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising… — John Fowles 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
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library. — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the… — Margaret Weis Copy Share Image
It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the… — Virginia McKevitt Copy Share Image
