If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing… — Lea Carpenter Copy Share Image
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction.… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“Much more successful as an individual short story is Karl Schroeder’s ‘‘Jubilee’’, posted on Tor.com on February 26. This has at its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes.… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“No fiction can have real interest if the central character is not an agent struggling for his or her own goals but… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling.… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I started the movement of SF in America in 1908 through my first magazine, 'MODERN ELECTRICS.' At that time it was an… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
“Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely… — Linda Leigh hargrove Copy Share Image
If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“You’re a talking cat?” Endora asked with a look of disbelief on her face. “My, my, my, aren’t you the bright bulb… — Sophie Palmer Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the… — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
“Kate stops grinding the knife and begins to pass it over the length of the stone. Turning her wrist, she pulls the… — Kari Aguila Copy Share Image
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence… — Robert P. McCulloch Copy Share Image
And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
