That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking “The Dodge Rebellion”?… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“She knew this day was different and worse, much worse than before. This was the day that Bethany began to believe their… — Katie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice. — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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