Fiction Quote by Dean Cavanagh Download Open image “The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum” — Dean Cavanagh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Humdrum Past Science Science fiction Time Visceral
Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for weeks. Then,… — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today's reality - that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the complex events… — Biggle Copy Share Image
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Would a DNA test for love take a sample from the heart or the mind?” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatize the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic compassion they will make provisions for the sick and the poor. Air will be rationed by a privatized bureaucracy and only those who complete a series of stringent means tests will be allowed to breath freely. If this… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share
The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image