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
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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
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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
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
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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
“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
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
“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
“Probably your biggest mistake was doing funk-dance to Unchained Melody,” the dog offered earnestly. “It’s a ballad, Alf, and to be honest,… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that… — Alfred Mele Copy Share Image
“The Ferryman will transport us across the moat,” Chris informed. “Yeah. This seems legit,” Gabriella quipped as Chris helped her onto the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical and… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
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“Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“The black bird cocked its head to one side, and then said, in a voice like stones being struck, 'You shadow man.'… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?" I would, actually, but I don't want to relent… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy,… — F. Paul Wilson 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 when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it." [ Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle , 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]” quote by T.C. Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68b/t-c-boyle-8108_art_but-then-that-s-the-beauty-of-writing-st_1261960.jpg)
![“I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay among human beings that constitutes "scenes" in his plays, and constitutes "story" in prose fiction.” quote by Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c4d/joyce-carol-oates-344_exciting_i-feel-akin-to-william-shakespeare-in-th_2191592.jpg)
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