“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t until I noticed two of the words on the sheet printed on a folder label. Sure enough, it was Williams’… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about 'Redshirts' getting onto the actual best-seller list, and doing as well as it has been doing,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“...and I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were… — Charlotte Rogan Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“the presence of an old salt aboard the Elizabeth Seaman was profoundly reassuring. “Iron men in wooden boats,” they were called, as… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“That was when I saw their hate come out. They fought on the front lawn. Balloons and my birthday cake stood witness… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.” — Genie Frisbee Copy Share Image
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning sun.… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
