I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.” — Andri E. Elia Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't have even been obsessing about it anyway, he probably had a girlfriend. Like a supermodel or playboy bunny or something,… — Kathey Gray Copy Share Image
“Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?” With a frown, she said, “I played.” “You took apart… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were… — David Brin Copy Share Image
That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us… — Graham Worthington Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“That's what scares me the most, Paul. That I'll just pass through life and all the people I know will just disappear,… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“You are thinking in human terms again, and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...” — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
“What I’ve deemed as impossible is more the fiction I’ve created to avoid the failure I fear.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I can enjoy 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Trek,' but I really appreciate hard science fiction. — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.” — David Housholder Copy Share Image
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.” — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them” — Justyn Simon Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
