Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Her descriptions will be incandescent, perfect little nuggets of phraseology, and there will probably be lots of sex in her writing - the clinical type of sex with labias and clitorises and tongues going everywhere.

The Fiction Class

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking." "Wish I was.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

Or is identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

Ancillary Justice

hope will always be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light

Literature - Reading, Fiction, Poetry & Drama 6th edition

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

I steal," Winkle said, with a smile that said I’m joking and a glint in his eye that said I’m not.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

She wanted to burn the whole place to ashes but, at the same time, it would be kind of nice to see it again. Home.

Spring 2015 Debut Fiction Sampler

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

I’m not an unproductive liar—I’m a productive fiction writer. I make stuff. I make stuff up.


Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters that are contained therein. They are counting on me as much as I am counting on them.

Nicholas Trandahl

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Penelope Lively

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.

Mark Twain

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Aimee Mann