Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Ozick

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.

Cary Fukunaga

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Christian McKay

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

N. K. Jemisin

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

Philip Dick

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Mae Jemison

I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

Lisa McMann

I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

William Gibson

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

Andrea Barrett

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

David Cross

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

Johnny Winter

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

Bob Dylan

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

J. K. Rowling

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

Hunter S. Thompson

I learned from #‎ Hemingway that you could be a #‎ writer and get away with it.

Phillip E. Johnson

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

Mike Judge

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

Joseph Conrad

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

Sonny Terry

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.