My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction,… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“He strained his ears, and the darkness felt heavier than before. Oppressive. “We’re hungry.” That came from behind him. “They smell tasty,”… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake. ‘Yes, the very battle… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the century-long history of Chinese science fiction, apocalyptic themes were mostly absent. This was especially true in the period before the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I find a tattered copy of 1984. I open the book and read a little. Of course it is fiction, but the… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Future Politics Effecting change in national politics was mostly a matter of making better use of online forums, encouraging voters to press… — Nancy Omeara Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is freedom? What is slavery? Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say No, in so far as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“It wasn't uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort--the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“I’m fucking asking you!” The man stood his ground. From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
