Audience Quote by Francesca Gregorini

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and…

— Dino De Laurentiis

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

— China Mieville

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories…

— Geraldo Rivera

“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with…

— Hal Duncan

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment…

— Charles Nodier

The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we don't like…

— Bill Maher

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great…

— John Lasseter

Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus reality in…

— Paul Di Filippo

I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much…

— Jill McCorkle

Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas may be…

— Brian Stableford

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their…

— Orson Scott Card

Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I love films…

— Panos Cosmatos