Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“In his entire life, Father Abaddon Sohar had never seen anything like what was in that cell, and he knew instantly that at least… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.” — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“You were dancing with Yuki and I looked at you. And you turned away and held her closer. Why did you do… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
“An ear-splitting screech pierced the silence, followed by another, striking his ears like metal against a hollow bell. The woosh woosh of… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“You can’t blame yourself for what Socrates did. Those birds came because he wanted them to come, at least a part of… — Ken Goldman Copy Share Image
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
“The audience-- the book's actual cast-- quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dropped everything that made the novel real… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic.… — Adrian Grenier 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
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it… — Nick Hornby (Author Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen 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
“Few would have seen Solomon and realised they were looking at one of wartime London’s top gangsters. With his receding hairline, thick-lenses… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
![“I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.” quote by Robert Reed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f8/robert-reed-23290_companionship_i-m-the-only-member-of-sfwa-in-nebraska_2634545.jpg)
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