... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I've always believed in numbers. In the equations and logic. That leads to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind. It portrays events of interest to all of humanity, and thus science… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“I blew into L.A. streaking down the freeway, the song "L.A. Woman" blasting out of the car speakers, the wind in my… — Jim Cherry Copy Share Image
The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It is not my job to explain the story or understand the story or reduce it to a phrase or offer it… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's… — Watkin Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
“The rolled toile slowly climbed up the bathroom wall. Tearing the chewed gum into pieces, the little green arms and hands secured… — Mary K. Savarese Copy Share Image
“There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the aura… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
“Being mindful of Aunt Kathy’s presence, I turned to reading the Bible while sitting in the living room. It was my way ofkeeping my aunt at bay. Yet, my facade didn’t sustain me for long. I got called to the dining table anyway. Next, I was told to follow Jerry’s instructions once we left the house.… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Atlantis sinks. Serves it right. Red hates the place. For one thing, there are so many Atlantises, always sinking, in so many… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one,… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Movie. What's my favorite kind of movie?” “Is there a point to this?” “Please, Lucy. What's my favorite movie?” “Horror. Why?” “No… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Although The Terminator is arguably the more visionary of the first two films, [Terminator 2] is the more visually and viscerally satisfying.… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead,… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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