All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Where’s my uncle?” she asked. “I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells'… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.” — Terry A O'Neal Copy Share Image
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I would love to take another stab at really smart, speculative sci-fi - my first was a bit of a stumble. I… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting. — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
“If someday you should ever think of me and miss me, know in your heart that I'd want you to find me… — Sebastian Cole Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction. — Ian Hickson Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
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