“Gabriel Edward Mackie, born with soulful maturity and an intrinsic sense of empathy, gazed at life through a poetic contemplative lens relishing… — JoDee Neathery Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
My sister was actually more of the sci-fi/fantasy person. I wasn't into it as much, although I think it allows you to… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
“You are a writer—you write one chapter and go on to the next and the next and so forth. You manage the… — Patrick Timm Copy Share Image
From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided… — E. M. Broner Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise -… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be practical to have sections called "Dog Stories", "Horse Stories", "Mid-life Crisis and Adultery", "Writers and Artists Struggling to Discover… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us… — James Wood Copy Share Image
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid… — John Green Copy Share Image
For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the… — Ludivine Sagnier Copy Share Image
Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Where’s everybody? I thought you had started production.” “They’ve got a day off, but don’t worry you’ll see the machinery is here.” But Brown… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of… — Philip J. Klass Copy Share Image
Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Danilo's was the kind of place where many drinking men come to hide, be it from their wives, in-laws, their jobs or… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you into the cosmos… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
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