“Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know… — Dick Peterson Copy Share Image
In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Ragna hesitated. She had known this moment would come. “My Lady, your son Alberon is the father of our child and he… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
“Someday or the other... we will find what we are looking for, or maybe we won't, maybe we will find something much… — Adbhut Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit… — Veronica Randolph Batterson Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from,… — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him,… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not… — Alfred Bertram Guthrie Copy Share Image
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes… — Lois Tilton Copy Share Image
I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character’s predicament, but never to solve his problems.” — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
![“I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.” quote by Lalla Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d39/lalla-ward-33910_clever_i-think-douglas-douglas-adams-was-a-real_996442.jpg)
