As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork. — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
“So...Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?" "Yes." "Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?” Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation.… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
“William slapped him on the shoulder, sending Sex into rapturous convulsions. “Before we do this, I’ve got one question for you. And… — Gena Showalter 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
For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction. — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
“And there it is! Bravo! I knew it was only a matter of time before Byron realized he had an audience. That… — Kirt J. Boyd Copy Share Image
“If you have no idea what I’m about to do, just watch and wait..then you’ll see time spin to a stop right… — Lenise Lee Copy Share Image
On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
“It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
“Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
“Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“How ya doing?” Gabby’s face came into view, and she grinned down at me. She’d stopped doing her healing thing, and the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
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