“The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity. — RJPeters” — R.J. Peters Copy Share Image
One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I definitely want to write some fiction, for sure. I already have half of the next book. I already have it all… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.” “They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.” But Brown… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise.… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“I believe a family just isn’t complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy’s nose right around the time… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
British and Canadian sci-fi strikes me as more forward-looking than its American counterpart, as evidenced by the success of Iain M. Banks,… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
