“After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.” — Michael Cox Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction. — Alexander McCall Smith 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'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
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
“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
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'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
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
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“The Ferryman will transport us across the moat,” Chris informed. “Yeah. This seems legit,” Gabriella quipped as Chris helped her onto the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
![“I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay among human beings that constitutes "scenes" in his plays, and constitutes "story" in prose fiction.” quote by Joyce Carol Oates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/joyce-carol-oates-344_exciting_i-feel-akin-to-william-shakespeare-in-th_2191592.jpg)
