I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible! — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.” — Michael Parker Copy Share Image
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play… — E.J. Stevens Copy Share Image
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome.… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead.… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
