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Kathy Acker First of all, writing at best...
Kathy Acker I understand that postmodern literature...
Harold Acton The biographies and autobiographies are...
Kate Adie I also read modern novels - I...
Alfred Adler The neurotic is nailed to the...
Edward Albee A play is fiction - and...
Brian Aldiss Science fiction is no more...
Dorothy Allison Fiction is a piece of truth...
Martin Amis Money doesn't mind if we say...
Kevin J. Anderson We sat around on a hotel...
Kevin J. Anderson I got to spend all of...
Kevin J. Anderson Dune is the bestselling science...
Keren Ann It's always a mixture of...
Jean-Jacques Annaud If you make a movie about...
Piers Anthony Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also...
Piers Anthony I do one Xanth novel a...
Piers Anthony It would be easier to write...
Isaac Asimov Individual science fiction stories may...
Isaac Asimov Science fiction writers foresee the...
Richard Attenborough I prefer fact to fiction.
Richard Attenborough I don't read a great deal...
Rene Auberjonois I love the fact that it's...
Louis Auchincloss Perfection irritates as well as...
Jean M. Auel I have been a reader of...
Jean M. Auel Of the two, I would think...
Jean M. Auel Science Fiction is not just...
Jean M. Auel I have heard Science Fiction...
Jean M. Auel My fiction is reviewed by the...
Jean M. Auel I could write historical fiction...
Francis Bacon Truth is so hard to tell...
J. G. Ballard Given that external reality is...
J. G. Ballard Everything is becoming science fiction...
Pedro Calderon de la Barca What is life? A frenzy. What...
Cecilia Bartoli People realize that Salieri is...
Jacques Barzun The danger that may really...
Frederic Bastiat Government is the great fiction...
Jean Baudrillard What you have to do is...
Peter Benchley I read very widely, both non...
Dirk Benedict A stage play requires very...
A. C. Benson I read the newspaper avidly...
Aneurin Bevan I read the newspapers avidly...
William Blake Do what you will, this world's...
Bodhidharma Whoever knows that the mind is...
Alain de Botton I was uncomfortable writing fiction...
Catherine Drinker Bowen In writing biography, fact and...
Elizabeth Bowen That is partly why women marry...
Catherine Drinker Bowen In writing biography, fact and...
Bruce Boxleitner It's not highly intellectual material...
Bruce Boxleitner They've also asked me now to...
Marion Zimmer Bradley Science fiction encourages us to...
Susie Bright People who love science fiction...
David Brin There's no doubt that scientific...
David Brin Predicting has a spotty record...
David Brin Change is the principal feature...
Poppy Z. Brite I think film had a terrible...
Poppy Z. Brite Some of the food in Liquor...
Harold Brodkey If you like to read, sometimes...
Terry Brooks Anyway, several rewrites later, Del...
Louise Brown I bought a selection of short...
Jeremy Bulloch I get offered a lot of...
Carter Burwell I would like to do a...
Octavia Butler And by the way, I wanted...
Octavia Butler I began reading science fiction...
Octavia Butler Science fiction let me do both...
Octavia Butler The thing about science fiction...
Octavia Butler No one was going to stop...
Octavia Butler So fantasy was fine early on...
Octavia Butler I was attracted to science...
Octavia Butler While Fledging is a different...
Yancy Butler I dig science fiction, though...
Lord Byron For truth is always strange...
Lord Byron Truth is always strange, stranger...
James Cameron I had read tons of science...
Vincent Canby Good fiction reveals feeling, refines...
Vincent Canby Hack fiction exploits curiosity without...
Orson Scott Card My favourite all-time work of...
Orson Scott Card There's a reason why every...
Caleb Carr I wanted nothing less than to...
John Le Carre There are some subjects that...
John Le Carre Every writer knows he is...
Jonathan Carroll In Poland, my audience is all...
Jack L. Chalker I have taught history on the...
Raymond Chandler Everything a writer learns about...
Iris Chang For some reason, I seem to...
John Cheever Fiction is experimentation; when it...
John Cheever People look for morals in...
C. J. Cherryh For me the purest and truest...
Charles W. Chesnutt As man sows, so shall he...
Gilbert K. Chesterton Literature is a luxury; fiction...
Gilbert K. Chesterton Journalism is popular, but it...
Chris Chocola The fact is that one of...
Tom Clancy The difference between fiction and...
Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction...
Gerald Clarke His theory was that non...
J. M. Coetzee If there were a better...
J. M. Coetzee I tend to resist invitations...
J. M. Coetzee As you see, I do not...
Francis Ford Coppola I landed a job with Roger...
James D'arcy There is an odd sense of...
Roald Dahl A writer of fiction lives in...
Roald Dahl Two hours of writing fiction...
John Dalton I spent several years acquiring...
Don DeLillo I felt Joyce was an influence...
Don DeLillo I quit my job just to...
Anita Diament I got nice rejections explaining...
Jared Diamond Tasmanian history is a study...
Philip K. Dick Science fiction writers, I am...
Thomas M. Disch A predilection for genre fiction...
E. L. Doctorow There is no longer any such...
Cory Doctorow It's part of a cycle of...
Lexa Doig I quite enjoy science fiction.
Carl Clinton Van Doren In fiction, too, after the...
Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that...
Carl Clinton Van Doren The region west of the...
Carl Clinton Van Doren The two most common charges...
Carol Ann Duffy It's always good when women...
Helen Dunmore Fiction came quite a while...
Friedrich Durrenmatt For people who have no...
Robert Duvall You really have to soak up...
Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no...
David Eddings I hesitate to predict whether...
Ralph Ellison Good fiction is made of that...
Ralph Ellison There must be possible a...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fiction reveals truth that reality...
Tracey Emin The idea that I'm going to...
Roland Emmerich I thought it must be pure...
Julius Erving There's the typical books, Moby...
Raymond E. Feist Jigsaw Lady is the working...
Miguel Ferrer We were given clear concrete...
Leslie Fiedler The novel doesn't come into...
Ken Follet There is a real connection...
Malcolm Forbes Anyone who says businessmen deal...
John M. Ford Creating the fictional background for...
Antonia Fraser I can't read historical fiction...
Neil Gaiman This is a work of fiction...
John Kenneth Galbraith We have escapist fiction, so...
Helen Garner Well, I'm at some kind of...
Helen Garner But I now think what I...
William Gass If there were genders to...
Gil Gerard I'd always wanted the show to...
Hugo Gernsback Let it be understood, in the...
Ira Glass Where radio is different than...
Ira Glass I think good radio often uses...
Mark Goddard I'm not a great science...
Arthur Golden Geisha because when I was...
Terry Goodkind It allows you to say things...
Graham Greene A petty reason perhaps why...
Pam Grier I love science fiction.
Nanci Griffith Even though my songs may sound...
Matt Groening I've loved science fiction ever...
Philip Guedalla Biography is a very definite...
Ursula K. Le Guin If science fiction is the...
James Gunn That certainly is one approach...
James Gunn In hard-core science fiction...
David Guterson Fiction is socially meaningful.
Mark Haddon As a kid, I didn't read...
Mark Haddon At 20, 25, 30, we begin...
Mark Haddon I don't mean that literary...
Mark Haddon When I was writing for...
Mark Haddon Young readers have to be...
Jessica Hagedorn I don't know what issues...
Laurell K. Hamilton Some people just don't seem to...
Laurell K. Hamilton I cannot say how strongly I...
Frank Harris Memoirs are a well-known form...
Richard Harris There's more fiction in my...
John Hawkes I want prose fiction to be...
John Hawkes I'm only interested in fiction...
John Hawkes When I started writing fiction...
Lafcadio Hearn I often imagine that the...
Heinrich Heine Great genius takes shape by...
Jimi Hendrix Imagination is the key to my...
John Hersey Journalism allows its readers to...
Laura Hillenbrand I think if I had been...
Alice Hoffman I think love is a huge...
Anthony Holden A close associate of his gave...
Anthony Holden That was par for the course...
Brad Holland Many people have observed that...
Richard Hughes All that non-fiction can do...
John Hume Like everybody at that age, I...
Isabelle Huppert Yes, he wanted me to do...
William Hurt I was a science fiction junkie...
Thomas Huxley The doctrine that all men are...
Guillermo C. Infante It means that no matter what...
Kazuo Ishiguro I think I had actually served...
Richard D. James I loved science fiction, but I...
Clive James Fiction is life with the dull...
Jerry B. Jenkins Fiction has a unique role in...
Jerry B. Jenkins Good fiction must be entertaining...
Jerry B. Jenkins I think all fiction should be...
Jerry B. Jenkins Ironically, in today's marketplace successful...
Jerry B. Jenkins My dream remains to inform and...
Denis Johnson If you write fiction, you're...
James Joyce I think a child should be...
Paul Kane I believe that, like most...
Paul Kane Because I'm such a creative...
Paul Kane I sometimes wonder what would've...
Daniel Dae Kim I have done a lot of...
Stephen King Fiction is the truth inside...
Nigel Kneale I never really saw myself as...
Harry Knowles For the last 30 years our...
Kenneth Koch I love painting and music, of...
Dean Koontz Literary fiction, as a strict...
Jerzy Kosinski And really the purpose of art...
Judith Krantz I got that experience through...
Judith Krantz I would, however, start writing...
Stanley Kubrick A film is - or should be...
Louis L'Amour For one who reads, there is...
Neil LaBute I would be more frightened as...
Lactantius Let us come to the...
Tim LaHaye I came to the conclusion that...
Tim LaHaye I think it's Jerry's masterful...
Tim LaHaye New fiction writers are a...
Tim LaHaye And then I met Jerry and...
Wally Lamb However far fiction writers stray...
Wally Lamb I think I write fiction for...
Martin Landau I've always been interested in...
Rose Wilder Lane Writing fiction is... an endless...
Tanith Lee Writing is writing, and stories...
Janet Leigh In order to dream, you need...
Doris Lessing Space or science fiction has...
Jonathan Lethem I learned to write fiction the...
Jonathan Lethem I'd have been a filmmaker or...
Jonathan Lethem My fiction has been influenced...
Charles de Lint As far as I'm concerned, the...
Penelope Lively I'm writing another novel and...
Penelope Lively I rather like getting away...
Penelope Lively You learn a lot, writing...
Penelope Lively The pleasure of writing fiction...
Penelope Lively The present hardly exists, after...
Gary Lockwood STAR TREK wouldn't die. There...
Audre Lorde I would like to do another...
Brian Lumley I should think just about...
Robert Lutz Imminent GM bankruptcy was always...
Robert Lynd Cut quarrels out of literature...
Norman Macleod Palaeontologists use fiction all the...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fiction was invented the day...
Peter Matthiessen In fiction, you have a rough...
Peter Matthiessen I used to distinguish between...
Armistead Maupin I tend to prefer the shelter...
Armistead Maupin I have always distrusted memoir...
Julian May Science Fiction will never run...
John McGahern I think fiction is a very...
Henry Miller One can be absolutely truthful...
Matthew Modine If you take 2001: A Space...
Rick Moody Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage...
Elizabeth Moon There are relatively few science...
Elizabeth Moon My personal feeling about science...
Elizabeth Moon It may be far in the...
Elizabeth Moon I was writing fiction, but not...
Elizabeth Moon When I was starting out, I...
Daniel K. Moran It's very strange writing science...
Jeanne Moreau All fiction becomes autobiographical when...
Robert Morgan I think that it's more likely...
Robert Morgan Maybe the example of Southern...
Robert Morgan In the best fiction, the...
Robert Morgan Fiction is about intimacy with...
Robert Morgan I don't think American poetry...
Rob Morrow I learned a lot about morality...
Joe Morton I think the thing is with...
Jason Mraz The easiest songs to write are...
Bill Mumy Babylon 5 is probably the...
George Murray Even the people who have had...
George Murray Humour is a fine line to...
George Murray I no longer feel pressure to...
George Murray Then I discovered I loved...
Vladimir Nabokov Happy is the novelist who...
Vladimir Nabokov A masterpiece of fiction is an...
V. S. Naipaul Each book, intuitively sensed and...
Mira Nair Truth is more peculiar than...
Nursultan Nazarbayev In the past, it was only...
Graham Nelson The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't...
Jack Nicholson I think that's what distinguishes...
Jeremy Northam Surely the job of fiction is...
Bill Nye When we see the shadow on...
Flannery O'Connor It seems that the fiction...
Michael O'Donoghue It began as this desire to...
Ben Okri We have fallen into this very...
Sharon Olds I think that there are fiction...
Barney Oliver Years of science fiction have...
Harvey Pekar People who are readers of...
Martin Lewis Perl I read everything: fiction, history...
Thomas Perry I had been writing fiction...
Thomas Perry It's important, I think, for a...
Ralph Peters When I'm writing about reality...
Frederik Pohl People ask me how I do...
Frederik Pohl If you don't care about...
Frederik Pohl It's clear that science and...
Frederik Pohl Stephen Hawking said he spent...
Frederik Pohl A lot of the cosmologists and...
Frederik Pohl My old English buddy, John...
Frederik Pohl The science fiction method is...
Frederik Pohl In terms of stories I would...
Frederik Pohl I'm pretty catholic about what...
Katherine Anne Porter I shall try to tell the...
Janet Street-Porter Forget romantic fiction, a survey...
Chaim Potok To the extent that I come...
Chaim Potok A non-fiction writer pretty...
Dennis Potter There's no end to the...
Jerry Pournelle We do a hard fantasy as...
Jerry Pournelle I started in this racket in...
Reynolds Price The older I've got the less...
Manuel Puig For someone who writes fiction...
Philip Pullman I had passed through the...
Raymond Queneau Fiction has consisted either of...
Raymond Queneau It is the creator of fiction's...
Raymond Queneau One can easily classify all...
William Randolph Truth is not only stranger...
Robert Reed I've always thought of science...
Robert Reed Before I was reading science...
Ivan Reitman I think Junior is certainly a...
Ivan Reitman I'd always been a science...
Ivan Reitman I've always been a fan of...
Nora Roberts Aren't most romance heros, or...
Jim Rohn The reason that fiction is...
Leo Rosten Truth is stranger than fiction...
Tim Roth You read a script and its...
Rudy Rucker Some ideas you have to chew...
Rudy Rucker One of the nice things about...
Rudy Rucker Science fiction writers put characters...
Rudy Rucker Now, being a science fiction...
Salman Rushdie The acceptance that all that...
Richard Russo When authors who write literary...
Jeri Ryan I had never seen much of...
Fred Saberhagen I wrote speculative fiction because...
Fred Saberhagen There's a big overlap with the...
Fred Saberhagen I finally decided one day...
Fred Saberhagen The advice would be the same...
Marquis de Sade Truth titillates the imagination far...
George Saintsbury One of the best known, and...
George Saintsbury But even gold is not...
Walter Salles I did documentaries for maybe...
Walter Salles That's why I have always...
Milton R. Sapirstein The ideal mother, like the...
Richard Savage Such, Polly, are your sex...
Stanley Schmidt And, of course, some SF is...
Dwight Schultz With science fiction I think...
Ridley Scott I think if I'm going to...
Ridley Scott Blade Runner appears regularly, two...
Michael Shanks In the meantime, I just have...
Al Sharpton I very rarely read any fiction...
Irwin Shaw Writers of fiction, when they...
Robert Sheckley I have never been a critic...
Robert Sheckley I'm not so interested any more...
Robert Sheckley Science fiction is very healthy...
Robert Sheckley So I wrote what I hoped...
Joe Shuster Jerry reversed the usual formula...
Dan Simmons But I think, and hope, that...
Marina Sirtis I've been getting a lot of...
Curtis Sittenfeld I don't really have special...
John Sladek I have a kind of standard...
Steven Soderbergh Reality shows are all the rage...
Susan Sontag A fiction about soft or easy...
Susan Sontag Science fiction films are not...
Steven Spielberg I want to be the Cecil...
Brent Spiner I don't read Science Fiction.
Brent Spiner I don't read fiction at all...
Norman Spinrad As a child, I read science...
Saul Steinberg Questions are fiction, and answers...
George Stephen I'm a fan of short horror...
George Stephen On the other hand, now that...
George Stephen I've devoted a lot of my...
Robert Stevenson Fiction is to the grown man...
Robert Stone Life is a means of extracting...
Peter Straub Many fiction writers eventually want...
Peter Straub I instantly chucked my academic...
Theodore Sturgeon Science fiction, outside of poetry...
Theodore Sturgeon In science fiction, you can...
Theodore Sturgeon Create a world in which these...
Theodore Sturgeon I wrote the very first stories...
Theodore Sturgeon Fiction is very important to...
Theodore Sturgeon Basically, fiction is people. You...
Theodore Sturgeon Some major writers have a huge...
Julia Sweeney I like going back and writing...
Amy Tan I also thought of playing...
Amy Tan No one in my family was...
Quentin Tarantino I wasn't trying to top Pulp...
Quentin Tarantino I don't think Pulp Fiction is...
Donna Tartt Character, to me, is the...
Sheri S. Tepper To me, fantasy has always been...
Sheri S. Tepper Science fiction still is an...
Sheri S. Tepper The only people who have the...
Sheri S. Tepper To me, fantasy has always been...
Nancy Thayer It's never too late - in...
Paul Theroux Fiction gives us a second...
William Trevor The capacity you're thinking of...
William Trevor I value mothers and motherhood...
William Trevor There is an element of...
Ivana Trump Fiction writing is great. You...
Tina Turner I was always attracted to...
Scott Turow If life's lessons could be...
Mark Twain Truth is stranger than fiction...
Mark Twain Fiction is obliged to stick to...
Mark Twain It's no wonder that truth is...
Mark Twain Why shouldn't truth be stranger...
John Updike Writing criticism is to writing...
Jack Vance I don't read other science...
Jack Vance But Roy Rockwood, it was...
Jeff Vandermeer Film fixes a precise visual...
Gore Vidal Writing fiction has become a...
Alfred de Vigny Do you not see with your...
Vernor Vinge The dilemma felt by science...
Vernor Vinge When I began writing science...
Joan D. Vinge Beyond that, I seem to be...
Tony Visconte Today's recording techniques would have...
A. E. van Vogt I first read science fiction...
Larry Wachowski There's a science fiction project...
Lindsay Wagner The fact that it's science...
David Foster Wallace Fiction's about what it is to...
David Foster Wallace I just think that fiction that...
Mary A. Ward In this choice, as I look...
Mary A. Ward For after my marriage I had...
Lalla Ward I think Douglas was a real...
Sigourney Weaver I don't really see science...
Sigourney Weaver One of the reasons I did...
Simone Weil Imagination and fiction make up...
Margaret Weis I like working closely with...
Irvine Welsh I tend to read more nonfiction...
Irvine Welsh When I'm not writing, I read...
Eudora Welty Writing fiction has developed in...
Jessamyn West Fiction reveals truths that reality...
Edmund White Whereas fiction is a continual...
Oscar Wilde A man's face is his...
Oscar Wilde The good ended happily, and...
Oscar Wilde Mr. Henry James writes fiction...
Walter J. Williams Science fiction readers probably have...
Walter J. Williams Even if you only want to...
Rowan D. Williams A public is a necessary...
Joe Wilson Giving the same value to...
Robert Anton Wilson Ego is a social fiction for...
Terri Windling When I started in the business...
Jeanette Winterson To create a past that seemed...
Jeanette Winterson If you continually write and...
Tom Wolfe The notion that the public...
Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web...
Virginia Woolf A woman must have money and...
Herman Wouk Income tax returns are the...
Herman Wouk The only imaginative fiction being...
Steven Wright When I die, I'm leaving my...
Sarah Zettel I have to do more close...
Sarah Zettel I'm mostly a novelist these...
Sarah Zettel Now, Venus is an extremely...
Terry Zwigoff And I sense it was a...



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