Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind. — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“His cell-phone rang. Dominic fumbled for it on the nightstand next to the couch, the dim lights not helping his endeavour. He… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four… — Paul Verhoeven Copy Share Image
“...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford” — Jack C. Monroe Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made,… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. — Moby Copy Share Image
I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Having a super-brain does not suddenly make you a dictator of the world. So we don't have to fear the scenarios of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world. — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other… — Nicola Chiaromonte Copy Share Image
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
