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I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.

I love science fiction.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It uses some experimental techniques but in the end, I would not say that it is experimental. I'm not sure why. I do a lot of writing on my own, and I have always just written this way.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I'm a big fan of fiction film where you have a story and you have to transform that into a visual language, basically working with actors and also transforming that into how you pronounce that in the visual language of the shots, the construction of the shots and the lighting. All of that appealed to me from the beginning of my career at the university. When I graduated from the university, I wanted to deal mainly with that, with the visual aspect of the movie.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

I'm a huge science fiction fan...

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.