To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Being a fan of science fiction, I collect a lot of science fiction art work and so if you go to my… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“As the sun went down outside, the television screen started completely lighting up the room in obnoxiously bright colors at hyperactive speeds.… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
“He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning;… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-rid of i-i-it, but ih-it’s pretty gruh-gruh-gruesome.” They… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
“The beauty of science fiction was that its authors never had to work out the logistics of how we would arrive in… — Emily Witt Copy Share Image
“Day in and day out we learn to train and grow as Guardians. We do as we're told and follow the rules.… — Wendy Owens Copy Share Image
“My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history… — Chenjerai Hove Copy Share Image
It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I'm going to die. But the good kind of heart… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they… — Jesse Sheidlower Copy Share Image
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high.… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
