Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion, — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said,… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Heavy is the head that holds the pen of creation. We construct these characters from nothing, molding them from our imaginations. We… — Jennifer A. Marsh Copy Share Image
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“These abilities, this wonderful gift of nature, gives us the opportunity to control any living thing on Earth, Alex. The power that… — Mia Tavor Copy Share Image
I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
“I think I found your vampire,” Andrew said, except this time he wasn’t so amused. However, Gabriella was, her smile huge as… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming. — Shyam Selvadurai Copy Share Image
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
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