Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. — Brian Aldiss 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
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
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good. — Martin McDonagh 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
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our… — Paul Elie Copy Share Image
“When we as writers take our fears, beliefs, imaginations, and research and offer them up for the Lord to use, we are… — Amy Wallace Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“We should all be lucky enough to make something in this world half as fucked up as we were ourselves, something we… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful story has remained the same:… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A couple hours went by, and the storm began to turn back to the sea. The dark clouds rolled away, leaving white,… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction… — Azar Nafisi 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
“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
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
“...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it. — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality.” — Anne Stirling Hastings Ph. D Copy Share Image
“Eagles, buffalos and deserts vast, it’s no good living in the fucking past.” — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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