“It is only through fiction that we truly explore our future, as the future is no longer an extension of the present.” — Martin Talks Copy Share Image
I never have an alter ego in the movies. That's a fiction that the press has made up over the years, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around, but it's not anything like… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so:… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself,' she offered, guilty. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish.… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
It is a misrepresentation to call my works fiction; the work loses something when categorized this way. I realize that the stories… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.” — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“All existence is in vain: unexplained and sterile. I’ll end up alone with all my doubts that will haunt me forever, even… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.” — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Jake's fury rose and nearly choked him. He pushed the words through barred teeth, “I'm afraid I can't agree with you, Marshal.”… — Willowy Whisper Copy Share Image
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
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