“There was clairvoyance to their words and a tenderness in their inflections that instilled even in the most cynical of male hearts… — Eric Monsky Copy Share Image
“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is, in many ways, like a religion. It is a daily practice, a way of life, a set of rituals,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
What you create when you're teaching fiction writing is a kind of literary salon, not a social club or a mutual admiration… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Darla shook her head, a small smirk on her lips. “You’re such a mom,” she told Katherine. Katherine stared at her, puzzled.… — Deanna Lynn Sletten Copy Share Image
There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“It is only in fiction that the protagonist moves in a single minded, one point focus, screening out everything that isn't related… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
“Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“He was tender with her. He wiped her eyelids with his handkerchief, not noticing how soiled it was. It was stained with… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“In the forest you may find yourself lost, without companions. You may come to a river which is not on a map.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Fix me," I commanded him. "This thing, what I've done- there's something wrong with me, Noah. Fix it." Noah's expression broke my… — Michelle Hodkin The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate… — Beverly S. Harless Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“They say fiction is the closest we ever get to magic. Forget top hats and rabbits: open a book and an entire… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For Sarah Palin, the least experienced on the world stage, the stress of maintaining the fiction that she was qualified to be… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The Singaporean speculative tradition is different. Singapore doesn't conceive itself as the centre of the world or the one country that's going… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
