I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten. — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
“Have a smile on your face for everyone you meet, and a plan to kill them.” — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've… — Douglas Coupland 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
“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
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
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
“Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“It was the afternoon in the city of Orlando, Florida. Amid the hustle and bustle, the cafe next door to a strip… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out… — Dave Robinson Copy Share Image
“If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.” — Kimberly Brouillette Copy Share Image
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.' — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.” — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.” — R.S. Gompertz Copy Share Image
Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice. — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat 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
