As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“His kiss was light but lingering, like smoke from shivering lips on a freezing winter morning.” — Rebecca Berto Copy Share Image
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“It is not my job to explain the story or understand the story or reduce it to a phrase or offer it… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.” — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
“It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty sure she’s got an angel job now where she plucks a large handful of flowers and carries them up to… — JoDee Neathery Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“Was love ever easy for anyone? If less complicated, would this make it less appreciated? Perhaps love was difficult for good reason.… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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