There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary… — April Lindner Copy Share Image
Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to… — Levi Grossman Copy Share Image
“C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I'm pretty instinctual when I write, and I really like to get to a point where I'm writing where I don't know… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“A few of the gunslingers dance, but only a few. And they were the young ones. The other ones only sat, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will… — Jeanine Henning Nhakira Copy Share Image
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted… Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction -… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
