“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“You're nothing more than a common bully,' he whispered, voice trembling. I'd shaken him for good now, and it was deeper than… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21,… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“With Catty and Patrick's images in he side mirror waving from the steps of that house like Jethro and Ellie Mae, it… — Linda Leigh Hargrove Copy Share Image
I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters -… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Here now, in the elsewhen of the SF Café, we’ve had the shenanigans going on for decades, but we haven’t yet adjusted… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now… — Theasa Tuohy Copy Share Image
“Standing in front of the white picket fence, I stared at the multitude of champagne roses weaving their hunter green vines gracefully… — Leah Lozano Copy Share Image
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“It was the afternoon in the city of Orlando, Florida. Amid the hustle and bustle, the cafe next door to a strip… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
