“Workshop Hermeticism, fiction for which the highest praise involves the words 'competent,' 'finished,' 'problem-free,' fiction over which Writing-Program pre- and proscriptions loom… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play… — E.J. Stevens Copy Share Image
The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut. — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what… — Patrick Hicks Copy Share Image
I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I’m in more trouble than I… — D.L. Given Copy Share Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“These scars that we have... they don't go away. They only fade with time, but they're still hauntingly there.” — Taylor Keys Copy Share Image
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars'… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The thought that the Mayan culture managed to calculate the Earth’s passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed… — Jody Summers Copy Share Image
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