I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“To get girls he had figured out that all you had to do was talk little, the bare minimum, and listen much,… — Sveva Casati Modignani Copy Share Image
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“I was a slave to my own darkness, believing in my false created, thought-identified identity so much that it forged what felt… — Andrew Kendall Copy Share Image
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“His cell-phone rang. Dominic fumbled for it on the nightstand next to the couch, the dim lights not helping his endeavour. He… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“No, I won't do it. I will not be locked into your head in this way. I will not participate in this… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
I think sci-fi and horror are a perfect vehicle for exploring racism and injustice, the horrors of that. They are real; they… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
“Shut the front door!” Jenna exclaimed. Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. “The… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for… — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I love that vein which uses sci-fi to address society's problems. It is the same when you have useful nightmares - things… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
“Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the… — Susannah Mansfield Copy Share Image
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
“Kalim respected me and I respected him, for the sole reason Rook did not respect me, because we were very different.” — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
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