There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Some times, you write fiction stories. Others, you use fiction to write your story.” — S. Usher Evans Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down… — Lembit Opik Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could… — Lindsay Chamberlin Copy Share Image
“Stories to read are delitabill (delightful) Suppose that they be nocht but fable (fiction) Then should stories that suthfast were (truthful) -… — John Barbour Copy Share Image
I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order,… — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
![“[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult readers who do deal in straightforward stories find themselves sidelined into a genre such as crime or science fiction, where no one expects…” quote by Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a7/philip-pullman-525_books_i-n-adult-literary-fiction-stories-are-t_1804165.jpg)
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