The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut. — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really emo stories as a kid. I wrote a lot of fan fiction. — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn about the worlds I wanted to write about in fiction. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that. — Chris Morris Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite… — John Hume Copy Share Image
While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate us of Multiple Personality Disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell Copy Share Image
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things. — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is. — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“If you don’t know the fantasy life of a country, it’s hard to write fiction about it.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
