“Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he'd shown me the latch behind the dressing-room… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
“But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
“You aren't allowed out of the graveyard -it's aren't, by the way, not amn't, not these days-because it's only in the graveyard… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“In the forest you may find yourself lost, without companions. You may come to a river which is not on a map.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met” — Raji Singh Copy Share Image
“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“The tangible and intangible collide to cast a spell. But can a person or thing ever be stripped naked? Can we ever… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.” — Isham Cook Copy Share Image
“With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.” — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things. — David Hanson Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“What I’ve deemed as impossible is more the fiction I’ve created to avoid the failure I fear.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake. ‘Yes, the very battle… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the… — Philip Roberts Copy Share Image
There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
