I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre. — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality.… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“The magic ingredient in fiction is that special something that socks readers right in the gut and leaves them breathless with joy… — K.M. Weiland Copy Share Image
If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Yes, the saint was underrated quite a bit, then, mostly by people who didn’t like things that were ineffable… …a lot of… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction. — Lani Tupu Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs. — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed all mediums; in fiction you are performing in front of a camera, there is no live audience. — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
“It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.” — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is. — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
