Space Quote by Bette Davis

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

— Salman Rushdie

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

— Anne Roiphe

Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those…

— Samuel R. Delany

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

— Ted Dekker

Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters - hopeful or…

— Kameron Hurley

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being…

— Dani Shapiro

I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

— Lynne Tillman

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

— Julien Green

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

— Richard Ford

A lot of writing is thinking.

— Horton Foote

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

— Vikas Swarup

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

— Will Self