Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't even stoop so low as to pull the same trick on him he's pulled on me, because my girl was… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels.… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting,… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
“Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late.… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . .… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could… — Burbuqe Raufi Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine,… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“There's a water cycle. Water never goes away. It never dies or is destroyed. It just changed from form to form in… — Jeff Zentmer Copy Share Image
“There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the… — Tom Hillman Copy Share Image
I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up.… — Moby Copy Share Image
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy;… — Theodore Roosevelt 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 Tóibín Copy Share Image
The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
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