The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Humph! A text message that said, ‘What’s up, sexy?’ You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the… — N. Wood Lane Copy Share Image
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to… — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
“It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how… — Pauline Clarke Copy Share Image
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Misery comes to miser; joy comes to wiser. (A Very Hot Cup of Tea, Empathy) Juvenile invites, youth tries, adult applies, and… — D.R. Mirror Copy Share Image
“I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain… — Jason Leclerc Copy Share Image
Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never… — William James Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it! — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying.… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
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