Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. "I guess you're not an 'afictionado'," she said. Poor Marta.… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sully's, on South Prospect, was the quintessential biker-bar, complete with hefty, leather-clad Harley worshippers, and stringy-haired heroin-addicted women who made the rounds… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
“Where are you taking me?” Andrew demanded, whirling on the Ferryman. His muscles tensed, hands curling in and out of fists. “To… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human… — Helen Cam Copy Share Image
Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“Because the truth is, fiction is one of the most effective time travel machines in the universe and always has been.” — Ann VanderMeer Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've always been most drawn to fiction that wrestles with that death-fear. Sometimes I joke with my students, 'If no one is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art. — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
