“The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning sun.… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie-shiny head, and I knew at any second… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen King, which is my favorite… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“George lay on his bed, wide awake despite the early hour, imagining over and over Jeffrey’s demise. He didn’t feel guilty. Jeffrey… — Matt Francis Copy Share Image
my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or… — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
“there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass. — David Foster Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende 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
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people. — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
“If we believe faeries are real, it brings a sense of magic to our very boring, difficult, everyday lives. It gives us… — Daley Downing Copy Share Image
“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Listen to me you piece of shit, if you ever give the press information about me, my parents or even breathe a… — Nina D'Angelo Copy Share Image
“Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones 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
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
