“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I think Dr. Willis McNelly at the California State University at Fullerton put it best when he said that the true protagonist… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in… — John Hyams 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
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“It’s complicated,” I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender. “Talk slowly,” Jenna retorted derisively. “Okay, I deserved that,” I… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate… — Kathleen McGowan Copy Share Image
“Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time."--Mea Brin, The Huntress” — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a… — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it.… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
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