My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street. — Rick James Copy Share Image
“I stole you, among others, from the streets of God’s birthplace. I forced you to work as a slave. Imprisoned, mistreated and… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic… — Max Nowaz 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
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Discomfiture is the scourge for a sound sleep, whereas, bliss is its chum." from-I Know You Now.” — Sushant Changotra Copy Share Image
“Awe! Leaving so soon?” Gabby said sweetly, holding the door open. “I was just about to pull out the gun for you… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys… — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The only unforgivable sin is to look into the human heart without compassion.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“My worry is that they will look down on our enemies. They have seen the Arabs in these mud towns and think… — Nigel Seed 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
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to… — George Saunders 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 the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.' — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I’m fucking asking you!” The man stood his ground. From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
“In Woolrich's crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me,… — John D'Agata 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
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction. — Ian Hickson Copy Share Image
Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
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