“It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a big, big love of mine. I would love to get into that at some point. — James Wan Copy Share Image
“Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others,… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. I think… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“Just then a familiar voiced spoke right in to Stephens’s ear which startled him as his eyes once again began slowly opening.… — Gary Peeling Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“(If you read this story out loud, please use the following voices: ME: as a child, high-pitched, forgettable; as a woman, the… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
“Suddenly William loomed over him, scowling, snarling and bloody, his suit dirt-stained and ripped. “Do you know. How many strands. Of hair… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“One by one, slow, quiet, with little more than a whispered end, Sofia snuffed the remaining candles. For every prayer she had… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
I write romance, women's fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“In my head, owning a bookstore meant I could hide in the back reading all day, while other bookworms came and went… — Kristi Hayes Copy Share Image
Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd. — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
“Sci-Fi, Space-Travel, Space-Opera, Chance-Encounters, Adventure-Reads, Speculative-Fiction, Book-Quotes” — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Peter loved to hear the story of how his father tried to steal the sun. ” — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as fiction", Annie told him once. "If you can imagine something, then it's happened.” — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
How do you documentary a life when real life's getting more like fiction each day — Sushan Sharma Copy Share Image
“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.” — Adam Phillips Going Sane Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Life is not a matter of fact. What is fact or fiction is a matter of perspective.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
