Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
“Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry--that can last a lifetime.” — Tess Callahan Copy Share Image
“I never meant for you to see that.” “Of course, you wouldn't want me to see that. It's much more difficult to… — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for… — J. M. Ledgard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“The term 'Erotic Fiction' is interesting to me. The 'Fiction' part. Cuz right now somewhere in the world it's happening just as… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars'… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -… — James Frain Copy Share Image
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I distracted Herbert by pretending to trip and break a bone. Ethan darted around to the red golf cart with a cocky… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“This is a comment on the “science” in this science fiction novel. I’ve always been partial to science fiction that posed a… — Laurence E. Dahners Copy Share Image
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image