The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted… — Alex Stapleton Copy Share Image
I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways,… — Keri Arthur Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“He had been inspired to start a career in the porn industry after reading the incredible tale of a Japanese man who… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption—that an alien race would… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
“The things that happen in fiction mirror those things that have happened ---or will happen soon --- in real life.” — Bill Granger Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
