I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“Foolish potato, talking to her like that won’t work. You’ve got to be mean and show off your foil-wrapped rigidity.” — Michael Diack Copy Share Image
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
'Siya Ke Ram' being my very first fiction TV show, I've always wanted to do a role that challenges me as an… — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
“Have you chosen your new name?” “I have a notion. How about you?” “I’m thinking on it but I haven’t settled. Tell… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Bear with me G-Harrison because this is going to be a long speech. I’ve always had this feeling that the world is… — Michael Diack Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: In the torrential downpour with water swirling that threatened to pull her down, she didn’t see… — Shelley K. Wall Copy Share Image
I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think… — Richard Branson 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
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions. — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me… — Hannah Blatchford Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
“Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I’m not entirely comfortable with that,” I said,… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no… — Michael Lindsay-Hogg Copy Share Image
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a… — George Will Copy Share Image
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
“It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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