A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother.” — Sarah A. Denzil Copy Share Image
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.” — Nicki Salcedo Copy Share Image
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?” — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement. After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.” — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
“Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff,… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Dies iral, dies illa Solvet Saeclum in Favilla Teste David cum Silylla That Day of Wrath, that day of burning Seer and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink,… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
