In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light… — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Who wants to go down the creepy, smelly staircase into God only knows what?" Brandon said. "I'm going," Dana said. "I'm with… — James L. Rubart Copy Share Image
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“As I lay there watching Robin sleep beside me, I realized that she was right all along. I didn’t need to live… — Sebastian Cole Copy Share Image
“In this strife-torn valley, I have always been tormented by feelings of indefinite and eternal uncertainty. "The Half Mother" is an outcome… — Shahnaz Bashir Copy Share Image
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and… — Joe Wilson Copy Share Image
“...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other… — Nicola Chiaromonte Copy Share Image
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.' — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world.… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Yako went to the boxes holding Lilly and Candice, undid the bungee cords, and opened them. She used smelling salts to arouse… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
