“His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
“I guess you could say I'm allergic to sunlight. If I'm exposed to it, it could kill me.” — Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
“I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.” — Kevin J Anderson Copy Share Image
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
TV is changing for good. I'm glad that the leveling is happening when we are blending the fiction with real-life treatment. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he… — Sheldon Friedman Copy Share Image
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
“Jules lips quivered, and I feared she was about to cry. Then she asked, “He bit off more than he could chew,… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“I, SINUHE, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa, write this. I do not write it to the glory of… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another… — Vija Celmins Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
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