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One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.

Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country’s writers.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.