“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.” — Patti Callahan Copy Share Image
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.” — Sarah Langan Copy Share Image
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction. — Will Self Copy Share Image
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“Why is life a constant disappointment?' 'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true.” — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon… — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and… — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Science fiction has traditionally been economically naive, with a strong libertarian streak, which I think is like a crude Leninism. That's attractive… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
