The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
“Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It is only in fiction that the protagonist moves in a single minded, one point focus, screening out everything that isn't related… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
'Siya Ke Ram' being my very first fiction TV show, I've always wanted to do a role that challenges me as an… — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Foolish potato, talking to her like that won’t work. You’ve got to be mean and show off your foil-wrapped rigidity.” — Michael Diack Copy Share Image
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“Thank-you, son,’ said his father. ‘I want you to know we’re both proud of you. Take care, and keep in touch if… — Chris Tinniswood Copy Share Image
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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