It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“The Butcher of Babylon featured in over 500 porn films between 1974 and 1982, and was best known for his motto: Come… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they… — Jesse Sheidlower Copy Share Image
A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his… — Haidji Copy Share Image
“Day in and day out we learn to train and grow as Guardians. We do as we're told and follow the rules.… — Wendy Owens Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
“This is what we are for, Alin,” the older guardsman said, turning to his companion. Adare had never heard anyone use Birch’s… — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival.… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary--made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
