Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

Stewart O'Nan

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

Janet Leigh

Jules: Shut the fuck up, fat man!

Pulp Fiction

Harold Crick: I may already be dead, just not typed.

Stranger Than Fiction

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

Nicholas Sparks

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

Victoria Clayton

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

William Blake

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

William H. Gass

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Peter Straub

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

Will Self

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most ...

Complete Prose Works

Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments ...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist feels a proprietary affection for his or her ideas and findings. Even so, you don’t reply to critics, Wait a minute; this is a really good idea; I’...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we shoul...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Toward the end of his book, Miller explains his need to unite science and religion: science does not explain the meaning and purpose of life. That may be, but why should we assume religion explains such things any better? Just because religion attemp...

Debunking Darwin's God: A Case Against BioLogos and Theistic Evolution

December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of this year, then comes a new one. Then, what? No one knows. -- Diary of Bertha Kate Gaddis who passed away 6 months later, age 78, We...

Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home