Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the… — Faran Tahir Copy Share Image
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: As Cassie’s body hurled toward him in the swirl, she realized the brevity of the situation.… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
“My breath is halted, like grasping for air after crying far too long and hard. It is like a hiccup, with a… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
“There are two rules for success... 1. Never reveal everything you know.” — Ylond Miles-Davis Copy Share Image
“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
How do you documentary a life when real life's getting more like fiction each day — Sushan Sharma Copy Share Image
In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“A great deal of a child’s life is being asked and being told things by adults and not knowing the answers or… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.” — Michael Cox Copy Share Image
“The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“Gina was beautiful like a sunset. You see it and you think of how beautiful it is, and then it’s over and… — Christopher Stocking Copy Share Image
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much that it forged what felt… — Andrew Kendall Copy Share Image
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. — Julian May Copy Share Image
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
“Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?” — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some. But was a… — Francis Ray Copy Share Image
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.” — Dorothy W. Cosey Copy Share Image
