It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
“Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder… — Michael Crummey Copy Share Image
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“...I tried to pretend that what we were enacting was nothing more than an intricate kind of handshake." ~Malcolm” — Kathleen Maher Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“In life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t… — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.” — Ken Andersen Copy Share Image
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than… — Peter Kendall Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Running her fingers on the scales, she sighs. “I wonder what its like to be a human?” “Why won’t you just go… — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
“If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work. — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
