“Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be” — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular. — Heather Dubrow Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable.” — H.S. Rissam Copy Share Image
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a… — Keahu Kahuanui Copy Share Image
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
“His real name is A.J., but he is known in Heaven as Armor because of how resilient he is in his faith… — Sunshine Rodgers Copy Share Image
“I have been… To every depth of my heart To every height of my mind To every extent of my world I… — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon” — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
“All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“You ever play that game seven minutes in heaven, baby? Because we're about to play it.” — Kathey Gray Copy Share Image
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do. — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
“Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions.” — Sam Wasson Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
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