Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
“Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt… — David Sloma Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In such a fight, he thought he might be able to feel the demon in the man become more apparent, but his… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
“He was goin' on four and he used to eat fireflies. I don't know. I think he thought they'd make him glow.” — Danielle Bennett 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
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Stories become great by hacking your brain. Nothing that happens in fiction matters. The people in fiction are fictional so their triumphs… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“ In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
