God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people. — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“If you can't see the joy and wonder to be found in genre fiction, that's your problem, not mine.” — William Meikle Copy Share Image
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction:… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the… — Henry Eliot Copy Share Image
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told… — Chad Boudreaux Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them,… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I loved the feeling of finally falling in love to someone who would love me back.” — Kristine Cuevas Copy Share Image
My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.” — Harry Truman Copy Share Image
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“With out freedom nothing has value, Free agency is the only true key to happiness.” — M.H. DuMond Copy Share Image
The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction. — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“Discomfiture is the scourge for a sound sleep, whereas, bliss is its chum." from-I Know You Now.” — Sushant Changotra Copy Share Image
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
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