Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'. — Paul Verhoeven Copy Share Image
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Fiction is overrated, Fly. We’ve discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human,… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.” — Brook Tesla Copy Share Image
“I suggest you leave now, or you’ll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting.” “Tie us down?” “And… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created… — Anne Edwards Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
“My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Whenever I’d get howlin’ over something, he’d grab my ass up from wherever I was and head straight for the john. Momma… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
If the world would fall apart in a fiction-worthy wind, I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here. — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
“Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.” — Cao Xueqin Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.” — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV. — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.” — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” — Kristen Reed Copy Share Image
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
