“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really! — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Missing: A teenaged girl with lanky, blonde hair and a sunburst tattoo on her cheek. The holographic posters, brighter than day itself,… — Amy L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it… — Ellie Rose McKee Copy Share Image
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“So let's just forget about the whole thing and agree never to speak of it again. And I promise I'll never lie… — Jason Carter Eaton Copy Share Image
A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,”… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made,… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as… — Paul Louis Couchoud Copy Share Image
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“The first book to use the term ‘science fiction’ in the title was also a vintage paperback, an anthology called The Pocket… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Dashiell Hammett. "He was thin, walked with a stick, and was the only private dick I knew who used the… — Thomas deKooning Copy Share Image
“There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth.… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in… — David Denby Copy Share Image
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons,… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin… — Margot McCuaig Copy Share Image
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