Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to… — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
“If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.” — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
