the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his… — John Irving 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 love near-term sci-fi. I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“the house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, a number of possible windows not to be reckoned,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our… — Charles Shaar Murray Copy Share Image
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Why is life a constant disappointment?' 'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true.” — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon… — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn’t get good books out in New Mexico?” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
In this strange world called Earth, I have run into dead things that seemed to be alive; and living ones that seemed… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Horror stories are not just about fear, they are about choices, consequences, and the darkness hidden inside human minds. Stories like Lost… — Lost Life Fan Copy Share Image
“For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells'… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Where’s my uncle?” she asked. “I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled… — Sveva Casati Modignani Copy Share Image
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.” — Terry A O'Neal Copy Share Image
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