Quotes of: Fiction-writers Keyword

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

Michael Sheen

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Octavia E. Butler

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

Ridley Scott

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

Ridley Scott

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

Rupert Sanders

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Terry Pratchett

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.

Ornella Muti

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

Rene Auberjonois

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Tina Turner

As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that des...

1985

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average Am...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on m...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want to see or let anyone else see, and this stuff usually turns out (paradoxically) to be precisely the stuff a...

Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. It’s a fiction designed, we hope, to reveal a truth. There is no “pure” language. The only “pure language” is the initial sounds of a baby. A...

Anne Deavere Smith

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Guide to Fiction Writing

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

Martin McDonagh

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Angels & Demons

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism