Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of… — Alastair Bruce Copy Share Image
“The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“I feel like the Earth has cracked open and swallowed me into a bottomless abyss.” — March Lions Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.” — Adam Phillips Going Sane Copy Share Image
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
“Mmm.” Sebastian moaned. “It’s so delicious.” He laughed then. “It’s not the Poisonous Desert; it’s the Oreo Desert.” He scooped up handfuls… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“Jace’s husky voice almost came out in a purr. He said, “You want to make a bet on that, Charlie.” Oh yeah,… — J.L. Clayton Copy Share Image
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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