I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs… — Roky Erickson Copy Share Image
As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other,… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The black bird cocked its head to one side, and then said, in a voice like stones being struck, 'You shadow man.'… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?" I would, actually, but I don't want to relent… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Captain Miller, we know that you are connected with military intelligence, and can obtain classified documents.” — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer.… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“Be who you were meant to be and not what you've allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Mavis as she wavered… — Christine M. Knight Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
