It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
“The only unforgivable sin is to look into the human heart without compassion.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction. — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
“Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.” — R.S. Gompertz Copy Share Image
“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part , a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Fiction is my deepest love, but I love journalism, too. It keeps me thinking vigorously, and it reminds me that there is… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I’m not your boyfriend!” I snapped, trying to gently move her hands away from my body. “How can you say that?” Sara… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
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