Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries. — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it… — Maryse Alberti Copy Share Image
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Bear with me G-Harrison because this is going to be a long speech. I’ve always had this feeling that the world is… — Michael Diack Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: In the torrential downpour with water swirling that threatened to pull her down, she didn’t see… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
“I groaned as me limbs grew to immense proportions an' me neck stretched. Moss-coloured scales emerged upon me slick skin. Me snout… — K.V. Wilson Copy Share Image
People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument.… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
“People vote for whom they believe will be the best president and representative for our country. The First Lady is not on… — Venita Ellick Copy Share Image
“As with most of the future worlds in the science fiction, you are not talking about the future. You are talking about… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“When fiction collides with reality, it's time to get fired up. There are great stories being generated out there by real events… — Gregory S. Lamb Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“But why this obsession with what's actually true, the real, all that? Can't you accept that our lives are always part fiction?” — Bhaskar Ghose Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the… — Todd Crawshaw Copy Share Image
“It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Across his forehead was stamped the word WORTHLESS. How ironic. Exactly what someone might find stamped on his own forehead if they… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
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