The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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“[SF] was a commercial genre born in the old adventure pulp magazines of the first third of the twentieth century, aimed primarily… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something… — Jamie Bamber Copy Share Image
'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done… — Martin Villeneuve Copy Share Image
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'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I’m fighting a losing battle. I can’t tell this story the way it should be told. This whole hotchpotch of characters, events,… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
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“It hurts,” Summer cries, head shaking back and forth. “Please, make it stop.” Sweat beads on her forehead. “What hurts?” Cameron asks.… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“So, you know that group up there in the Planetarium then?’ The pistol continued. ‘Hey they say it’s a small world.’ ‘Are… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he… — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight… — Joe Mynhardt Copy Share Image
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My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end -… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
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If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
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“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
“Mark Rosewater wrote: Science fiction, at is core, is about exploring what if. It is literature investigating humanity’s potential. Fantasy, at its… — James M. Corkill Copy Share Image
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