“Burn wounds always elicited pain more terrible than anything else he had ever endured. He didn’t relish the idea of forcing himself… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song.… — Terri F. Williams Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen 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
“It hurts,” Summer cries, head shaking back and forth. “Please, make it stop.” Sweat beads on her forehead. “What hurts?” Cameron asks.… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“The farmhouse sat on a rise at the end of a long dirt road, in a clearing surrounded by fruit trees and… — Marjorie Hudson Copy Share Image
Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable and then, eventually, another… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will… — Jeanine Henning Nhakira Copy Share Image
“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator...… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The Dire Wolf killed the Jakes,” he said. “Who’s this Dire Wolf?” I asked. Figured he was talking about someone he knew.… — Phil Truman Copy Share Image
“I mutter and mutter and no one to listen. I speak my words in Japanese and my daughter will not hear them.… — Hiromi Goto Copy Share Image
“If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to… — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails. — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac Mccarthy Copy Share Image
“The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
