My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She gave him a brief, mysterious smile. “You were watching me. I felt you before I saw you.” So? This is a… — Vincent Panettiere Copy Share Image
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. — Fred Saberhagen 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
“He never had nothing of his own before, except the kid, and he can’t claim but half the credit, there, maybe less.… — Nadria Tucker Copy Share Image
“For his lunch break, Alex decided to sit outside for a smoke. There was no break room to speak of, just a… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
“The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but... — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“That's what scares me the most, Paul. That I'll just pass through life and all the people I know will just disappear,… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
These claims [about me of inappropriate conduct with women] are all fabricated. They're pure fiction and they're outright lies. These events never,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
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