Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce… — K. J. Bishop Copy Share Image
I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
How could you possibly call something science fiction at this point unless it has to do with something that hasn't been done?… — El-P Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“An ear-splitting screech pierced the silence, followed by another, striking his ears like metal against a hollow bell. The woosh woosh of… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“The calming presence of the forest merged with the beating hearts of the human beings, each of whom was emanating the same… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these… — Kyra Zagorsky Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels.… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't even stoop so low as to pull the same trick on him he's pulled on me, because my girl was… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Here’s what happens when a single mom meets New York City’s hottest fireman… “Then…seductively…as if he received instruction not from the FDNY’s… — Isabella Johns Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine,… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could… — Burbuqe Raufi Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . .… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image