One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“ “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical and… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
“...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. ... And thus fled… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“The Ferryman will transport us across the moat,” Chris informed. “Yeah. This seems legit,” Gabriella quipped as Chris helped her onto the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction.… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way… — Kristina Riggle Copy Share Image
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“HARD SF and EPIC FANTASY – both of these forms have been conventionalised, proscribed and prescribed, such that they constitute valid GENRES… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers. — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“What could I do in the country, Frank? You want me to be a milkmaid or something. No, I’ll take my chances… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Asimov received frequent criticism about his books that they never included aliens or sex, so Asimov included in this book aliens, sex,… — Conor Lastowka Copy Share Image
That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better… — Marcy Dermansky Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come,… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the… — Faran Tahir Copy Share Image
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“You’re also finding out something as you read that will be vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college,… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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