There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our… — Paul Elie Copy Share Image
I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.” — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth.… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination.… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way. — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy.… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image
Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
“Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image