A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?” — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa. — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. — David Grann Copy Share Image
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can’t I received the same feeling in return?”… — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
“If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement.… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
“A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“When I think about science fiction turning into reality, the development of Space has been the most profound transition.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying.… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead,… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
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