We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish… — Pooja Subramanian Copy Share Image
I'm repledging myself to human-scale values. As a fiction writer, the best data comes through the senses and is then processed through… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“His cell-phone rang. Dominic fumbled for it on the nightstand next to the couch, the dim lights not helping his endeavour. He… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger… — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and… — Marjorie Hudson Copy Share Image
I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently,… — Elias Zapple Copy Share Image
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“As in the universe every atom has an effect, however minuscule, on every other atom, so that to pinch the fabric of… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“All writers struggle at some point with the problem of balance between authority and involvement, seduction and revelation. Specifically, beginning writers wonder… — Julie Checkoway Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“You're only going to tire yourself out trying. Best to quit while you're ahead. That way, no one gets hurt.' 'How very… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
“Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
