I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility,… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel in a life so crammed with busy years,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films… — Harry Knowles Copy Share Image
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Ann Patchett about the lack of a fiction Pulitzer winner this year. "Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important.… — Lynne Marshall Copy Share Image
I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“Sin says, "Do you think that people get married with aspirations to divorce? Do you think that people try drugs with the… — Stephen and Tiffany Domena Copy Share Image
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Outside the Bar Del Prado, night was coming on like a hopeless, drunken come-on, tequila on its breath, red neon signs and,… — Michaela Carter Copy Share Image
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“This world must differ from the given in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The thought that the Mayan culture managed to calculate the Earth’s passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed… — Jody Summers Copy Share Image
“Parables are works of art, specifically, works of short fiction. They are intricately constructed and complex in their intent. In some ways,… — Thomas Nelson Publishers Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“Amelia nodded her head, "That makes perfect sense." "No is doesn't," jeered Otto. "Yes, it does,” sighed Amelia. "Don't you ever remember… — Monet Polny Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch 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
Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
“Oh you're one of those people are you? The people who ask God for something and when they get it, they tell… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
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