Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic.… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked,… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just… — Frank Daniels III Copy Share Image
We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never… — William James Copy Share Image
“I heard from clear across the city, over the Hudson in the Jersey yards, one fierce whistle of a locomotive which took… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the… — Shomprakash Sinha Roy Copy Share Image
Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story… — Rebecca Lloyd Copy Share Image
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“She loved people, she said, especially those in books, which was largely how she knew them, but she declined to associate with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“He had heard many of his customers talking about 'repetitive strain injury' over the years and he was sure that, if he… — Stephen Craig Copy Share Image
“I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I am going to show you great and mighty things which no one has ever seen before… I am going to take… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
“Dmitri’s nerves calmed as he walked through the hedgerow maze, easily finding his way to the centre, sitting awhile. He had walked… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
