I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Yet the upcoming year was going to be a new phase of my life. I would get to follow my big brother to the big house. I had reached that golden age of six. Finally, I was going to experience the real deal. This was no appetizer, or tater tots, or French fries. This was the whole Ore-Ida.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
I started the movement of SF in America in 1908 through my first magazine, 'MODERN ELECTRICS.' At that time it was an… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Demons exist,' he says simply, as if talking about the weather. 'They are real and they are dangerous. We hunt them when… — Bill Blais Copy Share Image
I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Unwinding the white strips from our bodies, we let our sadness float to the ground. Women kicked their heels above their heads.… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction. — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
“Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I suggest you leave now, or you’ll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting.” “Tie us down?” “And… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,… — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy… — Dee Wallace Copy Share Image
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
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