So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom may not be wise. Good fortune and bad luck do not exist. Freedom of choice is predetermined. Don’t believe anything… — L. Anthony Copy Share Image
The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Rigorous extrapolation, a gosh-wow love of gadgets, and mystical adventures in strange and mysterious places; every major stream in speculative fiction today… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre.… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events. — Diana Penty Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is brilliant because you can totally exaggerate everything and not have to worry about legal issues. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
“There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Traditionally, the science fiction reader has been the 16- to 24-year-old male, especially the male with an interest in technology. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait… — Lee M. Sapp Copy Share Image
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books,… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best… — Harold Acton Copy Share Image
