If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
“I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I’m in more trouble than I… — D.L. Given Copy Share Image
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it.… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“You can't kill an American Citizen without benefit of a trial." "I can if you're on the list, traitor." "LIST? What list?… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the… — Ludivine Sagnier Copy Share Image
For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
“We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever… — Chelsea Vanderbeek Copy Share Image
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed,… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
