Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to… — Levi Grossman Copy Share Image
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a set of observable manifestations, as represented and frozen in language, that triggers a profoundly subjective and individual experience. Ultimately,… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'Redshirts' getting onto the actual best-seller list, and doing as well as it has been doing,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
“And there it is! Bravo! I knew it was only a matter of time before Byron realized he had an audience. That… — Kirt J. Boyd Copy Share Image
When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I had - and continued to have - great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“This book is a work of fiction that was given to a pirate after it was retrieved from the future by exotically… — James Marshall Copy Share Image
“There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
“Oh you're one of those people are you? The people who ask God for something and when they get it, they tell… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
“What would you like for your own life, Kate, if you could choose?” “Anything?” “Of course anything.” “That’s really easy, Aunty Ivy.”… — Valentina Hepburn Copy Share Image
I'm pretty instinctual when I write, and I really like to get to a point where I'm writing where I don't know… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“Amelia nodded her head, "That makes perfect sense." "No is doesn't," jeered Otto. "Yes, it does,” sighed Amelia. "Don't you ever remember… — Monet Polny Copy Share Image
