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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 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.

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.

'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.

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

'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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

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.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.