I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
While the film [Hide and seek] is a work of fiction, I know many people, not just women, who have felt the… — Garth Kravits Copy Share Image
“Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?” — Milkweed L. Augustine Copy Share Image
Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion! — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Picture this broad: 22 going on 18. Half the guys in my class would have given their left testicle to date her.… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“Maryanne Burkhard and I have set up a B W Wrighthard profile on Goodreads. If any of you would like to friend… — B W Wrighthard Copy Share Image
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance -… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you start looking at movies on a moral level - "I don't like that, that hurts, that's mean, that's bad" -… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point,… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't… — S. Elle Cameron Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability… — Horace Copy Share Image
The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life. — David Walliams Copy Share Image
With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image