The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go… — Stella Maeve Copy Share Image
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation.… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“You are there and to their ears, being a Syrian sounds like you’re unclean, shameful, indecent; it’s like you owe the world… — Asaad Almohammad Copy Share Image
“Sometimes i just get bored live in real life, so i will hide my self in to the fiction by writing and… — Vindri Prachmitasari Copy Share Image
“Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I would love to see a story set in the distant future, in a different galaxy/universe, to see whether the human race… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
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