“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a… — Chris Stocking Copy Share Image
However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable,I'm going to kill myself,because I won't know what else to do” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“My worry is that they will look down on our enemies. They have seen the Arabs in these mud towns and think… — Nigel Seed Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Grover spit expertly between his teeth. "You know, Nerburn," he said, "you're like those treaty negotiators we used to have to deal… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books,… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait… — Lee M. Sapp Copy Share Image
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best… — Harold Acton Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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