I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have… — George Takei Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model… — Tom Segalstad Copy Share Image
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
“And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to feel this kind of… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that… — Roland Emmerich Copy Share Image
This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“My crystals call to me. You cannot leave without counting your crystals, the internal voice beckons. No. I retaliate against the thought.… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty sure she’s got an angel job now where she plucks a large handful of flowers and carries them up to… — JoDee Neathery Copy Share Image
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
“It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail… — Azita Ghanizada Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are… — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She gave him a brief, mysterious smile. “You were watching me. I felt you before I saw you.” So? This is a… — Vincent Panettiere Copy Share Image
“And yet—and yet—she enchants me, intrigues me, draws me like sin to hellfire. The infernal regions in the hollow between her breasts,… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“IT IS SAID that time is unrelated to everything else. It goes on and on, unnoticing of our actions, our falls, our… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time.… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
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