I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
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I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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They're the soothsayers, all these sci-fi short-story writers. They have totally predicted our civilization and what the future is, and it's nice… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is… — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
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It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. .… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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