I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful… — S. T. Joshi 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
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Grover spit expertly between his teeth. "You know, Nerburn," he said, "you're like those treaty negotiators we used to have to deal… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Probably your biggest mistake was doing funk-dance to Unchained Melody,” the dog offered earnestly. “It’s a ballad, Alf, and to be honest,… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that… — Alfred Mele Copy Share Image
“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must… — Kirstie Collins Brote Copy Share Image
“The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best.… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or… — Whitney L. Grady Copy Share Image
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.' — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“She was thirty-two, but drew blank on various periods of her life. In her own peculiar turn of phrase, they were like… — Fuminori Nakamura Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...and still the hands did their trick, like over-eager dogs that want to do their rolling—over trick for you not once or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite… — John Hume Copy Share Image
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that. — Chris Morris Copy Share Image
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
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