I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
“Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know… — Dick Peterson Copy Share Image
In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The night came on as swift and soft as a velvet dream. I was scrunched down in the front seat of my… — Jim Cherry Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: As Cassie’s body hurled toward him in the swirl, she realized the brevity of the situation.… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today's reality - that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the… — Biggle Copy Share Image
I've always believed in the power of rational thinking and behavior as the savior of the world, and science fiction as a… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“The defenders retreated, but in good order. A musket flamed and a ball shattered a marine’s collar bone, spinning him around. The… — David Cook Copy Share Image
To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through… — Caleb Scharf Copy Share Image
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game.… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Someday or the other... we will find what we are looking for, or maybe we won't, maybe we will find something much… — Adbhut Copy Share Image
“When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit… — Veronica Randolph Batterson Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Ragna hesitated. She had known this moment would come. “My Lady, your son Alberon is the father of our child and he… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
“He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom may not be wise. Good fortune and bad luck do not exist. Freedom of choice is predetermined. Don’t believe anything… — L. Anthony Copy Share Image
“He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
