“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“These stories are my weapon. If I can write a book that grips someone by the heart and then opens their eyes… — Eric N. Bentley Copy Share Image
“Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“And I feel certain that you will, because I've come to take it away. I'm from the furniture shop, and the bed… — George Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance... "The Elder Effect” — D. L. Given Copy Share Image
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“He takes two steps back. Closer to the portal. I can't stop myself. "Ben," I call. And I'm not even embarrassed about… — Elizabeth Norris Copy Share Image
I was listening to this interview with fiction writer George Saunders the other day, and he said something about how the role… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future -… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyone’s story is the… — Laura Bailey Copy Share Image
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“She died without us by her side, and now, we are left with the scars. In time, perhaps they will fade, but… — Sophie Palmer Copy Share Image
Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“HATE is the shortest of human emotions, it is stronger than love, more compelling than lust. Page 30. THE SCALPEL – GAME BENEATH — H.S. Rissam 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
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The night came on as swift and soft as a velvet dream. I was scrunched down in the front seat of my… — Jim Cherry Copy Share Image
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
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