I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
“The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . .… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
“Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre… — Daniel Dae Kim Copy Share Image
What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back… — Lincoln Michel Copy Share Image
My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots. — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
“What do you think about America?" "Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world. — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“If you have no idea what I’m about to do, just watch and wait..then you’ll see time spin to a stop right… — Lenise Lee Copy Share Image
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
