Contemporary Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“Do you know how rare such a thing is?” he asked quietly. “That peculiar sort of mutual passion?” The one-sided kind was common enough.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“A highly trained scientist who is also a perfected man may eventually create a world and people it, but a dissolute unrepentant, unbelieving one…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“You’re too smart not to know how rare, how special, what you two had was.”

— André Aciman

Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by…

— Dalai Lama

“Fynn disguise nobody but Fynn. At the time of writing I have known him for a couple of years. But there is another way…

— Vernon Sproxton

I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a…

— Michele Bachmann

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

— Manuel Puig

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction…

— Paul Harding