The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world. — Kirby Bliss Blanton Copy Share Image
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial.… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have… — Daniel Tammet 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
“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.” — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
“While waiting for her accomplice to gather his equipment, Hensley couldn’t help but think ahead to her next mission. She hadn’t told… — Chad Boudreaux Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction,… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay… — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
“Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work. — Lucy Walker 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
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
