Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because… — Isabelle Rowan Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science. — Judith Merril Copy Share Image
The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know… — Dick Peterson Copy Share Image
Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“The address given to me by Greta was written in such a way that the words looked like numbers, and the numbers… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
“Placing his suitcase on the seat next to him, he unbuttoned his suit jacket, loosened up his necktie and removed his fedora.… — Peprah Boasiako Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck 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
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
“I had finally become aware of how much I was capable of, how little I had to lose, and how deep into… — Celma Ribeiro Copy Share Image
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and… — Robin Schone Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. — William Blake Copy Share Image
I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely...we all have a… — Mimi Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.” — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“Heavy is the head that holds the pen of creation. We construct these characters from nothing, molding them from our imaginations. We… — Jennifer A. Marsh Copy Share Image
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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