I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and… — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
“I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!' 'And I’ve tried living without you, and it… — J.L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“Without making a conscious decision to do so, Drew grabbed a fistful of her ridiculous blond wig and tugged. Some of her… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Such are contrasts we see every day in the world. Joy and Sorrow! But Joy is an exile from Heaven who does… — Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga Copy Share Image
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
“Fiction in general holds little interest for me. Novels, in particular, arouse more suspicion than intrigue. It truly baffles me that any… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
“One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person,” she said nastily, “Can make your life around here a living nightmare and… — T.L. Clarke Copy Share Image
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