When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Free will cannot be used if your being taught how and what to think. If anything you see or read is not… — Christopher T Lewis Copy Share Image
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and… — Janet Leigh Copy Share Image
In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
A lot of times in my short fiction there isn't much dramatized scene - there are a lot of short, interconnected bits,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
YA fiction tends to have a finite quality. You're looking toward a goal - prom or graduation or revolution - and we… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, who cranked out sci-fi pulp by the cubic ton, 'Battlefield Earth' has the musty… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
“. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about… — Courtney Giardina Copy Share Image
“When asked to "define the difference between fantasy and science fiction," I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Do you think any of my brothers truly wish to die? The pretense is more insulting to my father’s cold body than… — Shen Tao Copy Share Image
If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn’t fit in with their predetermined parameters of… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver’s autobiography, "Clutch… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
Catholic fiction of the type we're publishing is stories that we know faithful Catholics will enjoy - stories they can escape with,… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in… — Leonard S. Marcus Copy Share Image
“The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“Parallel worlds, right?" Aston nodded. "Our sci-fi writers love 'em." "They still do back home," Ludmilla assured him.” — David Weber Copy Share Image
“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You are the belle of the ball tonight.” He said as he moved in closer. “How can you be so sinfully beautiful… — Barry Gray Copy Share Image
There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
