You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
“I promise to tell you everything you want, but first I want something from you in return. What do you want? Olivia… — Evette Davis Copy Share Image
“When people pose the question, are you “coxom”, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at them: Is J.K. Rowling… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now.… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Everyone has secrets. Fiction allows people to see themselves in characters, to discover healing and truth when their ‘reputation’ or shame won’t… — Susan May Warren Copy Share Image
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
“Shimmel: “NEVER TRUST THE GOYIM. They are just like these other weird dangerous people, Messianic Jews! How dare Jews become “Christian-like”, Messianic?… — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the… — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“On Fiction: (Martin) had discovered, in the course of his reading, two schools of fiction. One treated of man as a god,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“For years I’d been awaiting that overriding urge I’d always heard about, the narcotic pining that draws childless women ineluctably to strangers’… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I mutter and mutter and no one to listen. I speak my words in Japanese and my daughter will not hear them.… — Hiromi Goto Copy Share Image
“It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted,… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“When he wasn’t busy chasing unseen mice around the academy, Ion spent hours in the Borean Study, searching through dusty books for… — Nikolas Lee Copy Share Image
The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly -… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Tell me a story,' demanded Fireflyer. 'Why? Do you eat them, too, then?' 'Only the ohs and ayes and ees and oos.… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
“She was going to go home after this and sip red wine and stare at the wall, I could tell. She would… — Max Berry Copy Share Image
“At the edge of the field Silva and Stefan witnessed heartrending images in greyscale as thousands of desperate refugees streamed down the… — John Payton Foden Copy Share Image
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
For me, fiction belongs to my inner being, is something essential which defines me - I am a fiction writer in the… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“Zam watched as the creature began to fade, until it disappeared altogether and all that remained was his own reflection in the… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
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