“Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
They say truth is stranger than fiction. If that's true, it's stranger than it would be if it wasn't. — John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth — Richard Gerber Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says? — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“I know he says it’s a mind upload problem,” said Aideen. “But we won’t know that for sure until we get there.… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their… — Ken O'Neill Copy Share Image
The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and… — Marjorie Hudson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger… — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I'm repledging myself to human-scale values. As a fiction writer, the best data comes through the senses and is then processed through… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story! — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
“She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!” -Arista” — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics? — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
