Bloody Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

— Shane Warren Jones

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

— J. G. Ballard

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

— Yann Martel

I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when…

— E. M. Forster

Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

— Joseph Conrad

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

— Vera Nazarian

The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive…

— Kameron Hurley