“Tell me a story,' demanded Fireflyer. 'Why? Do you eat them, too, then?' 'Only the ohs and ayes and ees and oos.… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared not touch the pack… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Roads do not choose what they carry. Kings Armies Pilgrims Famine Grief All pass beneath the same stone.” — Harshit Dixit Copy Share Image
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
“One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make… — Nicole Christie Copy Share Image
“We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence… — Paul S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Ironically, [living in] communities of the like - minded is one of the greatest dangers of today ́s globalized world. And it… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.” — Brook Tesla Copy Share Image
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to… — Atul Purohit Copy Share Image
“I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what… — Sophie Jordan Copy Share Image
If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
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