Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

Art Alexakis

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Don DeLillo

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

Dylan Moran

When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

David Wroblewski

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Jonathan Lethem

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

Luke Evans

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.

Laura Hillenbrand

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Salman Rushdie

Great science emerges out of great contradiction.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

The Human Division

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.

Richard Engel

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Robert Winston

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

Sara Sheridan

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

Edgard Varese

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Andre Breton

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Josef Albers

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss