There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person,” she said nastily, “Can make your life around here a living nightmare and… — T.L. Clarke Copy Share Image
“«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.” “That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them,… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
“While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told… — Chad Boudreaux Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“Have you chosen your new name?” “I have a notion. How about you?” “I’m thinking on it but I haven’t settled. Tell… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction.… — Gary Lockwood Copy Share Image
It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“These creatures are not humanoid. They call themselves, the Fury, and the name is well deserved; they are a violent race. .” — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He is so delighted when we approach His throne with prayer. He loves to be remembered as the One who can heal… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
“So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance. --Egwene al'Vere” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“A great deal of a child’s life is being asked and being told things by adults and not knowing the answers or… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
