The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'. — Paul Verhoeven Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet. — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
“To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of… — Sophia Whittemore Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs. — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? -… — Barbara Falkenrath Copy Share Image
Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
“More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Tangled Moon ~ Sometimes you have to break the rules. Sometimes you have to let go of the past. And sometimes you… — Olivia Stocum Copy Share Image
“Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus,"I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. — Mae West Copy Share Image
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.” — Petra Kidd Copy Share Image
“C, it was like my breath was stolen. My heart seemed to merge with yours. When you came into my life, all… — J.L. Clayton Copy Share Image
“If someday you should ever think of me and miss me, know in your heart that I'd want you to find me… — Sebastian Cole Copy Share Image
“The time of my departure is here. Place your hand gently on the soil beside my own, and feel the rumble of… — Chuck Black Copy Share Image
My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image