In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“I came to the party with the sole purpose of getting completely shit-faced, to be perfectly honest. That was it, that was… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“You are thinking in human terms again, and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...” — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
If I had a nickel for every time someone told me apologetically "I don't read fiction," I wouldn't have to write fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I… — Brian K. Friesen Copy Share Image
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science. — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
“His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared. — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“In my head, owning a bookstore meant I could hide in the back reading all day, while other bookworms came and went… — Kristi Hayes Copy Share Image
Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of my favorite moments in old, you know, fiction films or documentaries are the parts that capture things… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
