“To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I did a lot of science fiction, and I've done a number of post-apocalyptic science fiction environments. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked. “We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator,” Joseph chimed… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having… — Jack Tate Copy Share Image
“It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I did the only thing I could. I said the dumbest thing any man has ever said to a woman, “Yeah, it’s… — Amanda Hamm Copy Share Image
I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are… — T Cooper Copy Share Image
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Well, I would tell Danny. I'd probably edit for Josh. That is if there was anything worth editing. “Joshua Roberts, you had… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
