“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I really don't know how he does it. How he can take any situation and seduce its pants off. It's a talent… — Kathey Gray Copy Share Image
I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“For someone to go from a crown princess-in-waiting to a witch, to a fortune teller, and finally, to an apothecary— that really… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. our magic moment help us to change and sends us off… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity… — Courtney A. Kemp 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
“A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and… — Robin Schone Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best,… — James Ticknor Copy Share Image
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it.… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I’m in more trouble than I… — D.L. Given Copy Share Image
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish… — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
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I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
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