I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create… — Kelly Masterson Copy Share Image
There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I'm repledging myself to human-scale values. As a fiction writer, the best data comes through the senses and is then processed through… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish… — Pooja Subramanian Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a… — George Will Copy Share Image
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg Copy Share Image
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I’m not entirely comfortable with that,” I said,… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“It is only through fiction that we truly explore our future, as the future is no longer an extension of the present.” — Martin Talks Copy Share Image
I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so:… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
“It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
