By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“Thus "good science fiction" is a value term, not an objective thing, and yet, I think, there really is such a thing,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us… — David Hare Copy Share Image
“Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay… — Rebecca Berto Copy Share Image
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff,… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can… — Ivan Stoikov Copy Share Image
“The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
“We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down… — Lembit Opik Copy Share Image
I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There's a market for fiction based on financial services. People wanted me to write stories based on this sector. There's a gap… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a… — Yvonne Coleman Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
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