I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will… — Jeanine Henning Nhakira Copy Share Image
I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken 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
You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science -- it's a lot more fun, and no more likely… — Lord Rees Copy Share Image
“PROLOGUE Some years ago in the Planet Orfheus ... It was dark when Lucius reached the rendezvous which had been chosen to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted… Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction -… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or… — Robert J. Sawyer 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
Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The Butcher of Babylon featured in over 500 porn films between 1974 and 1982, and was best known for his motto: Come… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
