In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction. — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives. — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.” — Ryan S. Fortney Copy Share Image
You may not be a fan of Twitter-fiction. That's okay. There are novels out there for you - big ones. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world… — Kelly Cherry Copy Share Image
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I can’t do more than this. Don’t ask me. If you ask, I’ll try and I’ll fail. You’ll end up hating me.… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about… — Mark Millar 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“(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
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions. — William Mapother Copy Share Image
“As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“The arrow's away and you're pulling the second before the first hits its mark” — Jennifer M Zeiger Copy Share Image
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?” — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like… — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image