To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
“Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt… — David Sloma Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In such a fight, he thought he might be able to feel the demon in the man become more apparent, but his… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
“He was goin' on four and he used to eat fireflies. I don't know. I think he thought they'd make him glow.” — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
“A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Stories become great by hacking your brain. Nothing that happens in fiction matters. The people in fiction are fictional so their triumphs… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“ In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
“Horror stories are not just about fear, they are about choices, consequences, and the darkness hidden inside human minds. Stories like Lost… — Lost Life Fan 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
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing them… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
“I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.” — Salvador Plascencia Copy Share Image
I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!” — I.R. Shankar Copy Share Image
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. — Paul Theroux 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
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
