“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!” — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Something like 'Alien,' that was not so easy. If there's any genre I wouldn't mind not having to do anymore, it would… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Yako went to the boxes holding Lilly and Candice, undid the bungee cords, and opened them. She used smelling salts to arouse… — Karl Braungart Copy Share Image
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?" I would, actually, but I don't want to relent… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“The black bird cocked its head to one side, and then said, in a voice like stones being struck, 'You shadow man.'… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
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