Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Self

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.

Matthew Pearl

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Alaina Huffman

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

Al Sharpton

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

Akhil Sharma

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

Chris Carter

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Chris Abani

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

Chris Abani

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

Chinua Achebe

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Bob Brown

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

Bill McKibben

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

William Shakespeare

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

Kurt Vonnegut

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Kurt Vonnegut

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

Kurt Vonnegut

The system promotes to the top those who don't care about the planet.

Cary Elwes

The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

Carlos Santana

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Carl Honore

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.