It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
“science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.” — Judith B. Kerman 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
Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
“The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Get off! Get off me, ‘Felix sobbed, sounding like a little kid. Marco kicked at the sickos, slashing with his knife. It… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have to be more than a passenger this time, I have to be a rider." - Flying Change” — G.G. Collins Copy Share Image
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
No one stays true. It's like an addiction cuz ain't no one real...it's all fiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions. — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction. — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out. — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.” — Desi Puspitasari Copy Share Image
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
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