“Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason.” — Hamza Hassan Sheikh Copy Share Image
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and… — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really! — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
“Missing: A teenaged girl with lanky, blonde hair and a sunburst tattoo on her cheek. The holographic posters, brighter than day itself,… — Amy L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Being a fan of science fiction, I collect a lot of science fiction art work and so if you go to my… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“As the sun went down outside, the television screen started completely lighting up the room in obnoxiously bright colors at hyperactive speeds.… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.” — Sarah Langan Copy Share Image
Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.” — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
“...don’t discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford” — Jack C. Monroe Copy Share Image
“We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love.” — Patti Callahan Copy Share Image
