Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
“One of the great gifts of fiction is that it asks us to stretch our empathy.” — Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.” — Anne R. Allen Copy Share Image
“Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship!” — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“I thought if only we could go on and meet again, shy as strangers.” — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
These claims [about me of inappropriate conduct with women] are all fabricated. They're pure fiction and they're outright lies. These events never,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
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
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous 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