[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth'… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
I always assumed I could never make a living out of literary fiction, and I was right. When I did try, it… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Maybe not to us, but to humans. And Sonia… She is something entirely different now, and we have no idea how much… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“She gave him a brief, mysterious smile. “You were watching me. I felt you before I saw you.” So? This is a… — Vincent Panettiere Copy Share Image
“And yet—and yet—she enchants me, intrigues me, draws me like sin to hellfire. The infernal regions in the hollow between her breasts,… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
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The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
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When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“No, I won't do it. I will not be locked into your head in this way. I will not participate in this… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents. — David Brin Copy Share Image
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
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Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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