There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. — David Twohy Copy Share Image
My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young. — Daryl Sabara Copy Share Image
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
“I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“Will this ever be over?" "In time. When the Thieves find something else worth stealing." "And then what?" "They'll tell the Stolen… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers.… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
“In many ways sci-fi is a natural progression from the magical worlds we inhabited as children. Speculative fiction opens up parallel universes… — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used… — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
“Life is not a matter of fact. What is fact or fiction is a matter of perspective.” — Anonymous 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
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge 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
“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
“Peter loved to hear the story of how his father tried to steal the sun. ” — Douglas Weissman 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
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 about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'. — Paul Verhoeven 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
“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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