Jody: [seeing Mia on the floor] Who's she? Lance: Look, go to the fridge and get the thing with the O.D. adrenalin shot. Jody: What's wrong with her? Vincent: She's O.D.ing! Jody: Get her the hell outta her! Lance, Vincent: GET THE SHOT! Jody: Fuck ...
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Alexander Dyle: All right, get set for the story of my life. Reggie Lampert: Fiction or non-fiction?
In 's ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from and other stories by that I first heard of relat...
What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation.
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high s...
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin...
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
I tend to read non-fiction.
My mom introduced me to science-fiction.
What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")
