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For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
Harry Knowles
Hope
Time
Good
Science
Seen
Films
Cinemas
Our
Project
Ruled
Some
Horror
Absolute
Had
Perfection
Period
Science Fiction
Still
Been
Years
Time Period
Very
Tastes
Done
Fiction
Fantasy
Last
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.
Haruki Murakami
Myself
Me
People
Some People
Matters
Imagination
Way
Some
Know
Make
Call
Make Up
Because
How
Up
Just
Want
Fiction
Story
Express
Watching
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
Haruki Murakami
Myself
Good
Political
Journalist
Half
Think
State
Percent
Good Stories
Write
Writer
Messages
George
George Orwell
Person
Anybody
Want
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Stories
Orwell
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Harvey Pekar
People
Books
Particularly
Readers
Comic
Comic Books
Fiction
Interested
Who
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
Heather Dubrow
Truth
Truth Is
Reality
TV
Than
Fiction
Which
Reality TV
Stranger
Popular
Why
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
Heidi Hammel
Science
Poet
Luck
Science Fiction
Author
Fiction
Requires
Societal
Technological
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
Helen Dunmore
Later
Came
Began
Quite
Short
Quite A While
Children
Fiction
Stories
Short Stories
While
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
Helen Fielding
Life
You
People
Writing
Down
Think
Other
See
Admit
Putting
Like
Sort
How
Doing
Reflecting
Normally
Fiction
Confusions
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Helen Garner
Husband
Think
Back
Way
See
Both
Rivals
Unconscious
Look
Contested
Doing
Were
Off
Getting
Where
Fiction
Turf
Might
Working
Ground
Now
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.
Helen Oyeyemi
Will
Reading
Too
Other
Those
Librarian
Characters
Features
Writer
Always
Fiction
Wanted
Decided
Psychologist
Who
Now
Professions
Things
Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect.
Henry Petroski
Technology
Respect
Science
Conservative
Engineering
Everything
System
Must
Fact
Perfect
Stuff
Know
Because
Science Fiction
Expectations
Fiction
Creations
Naturally
Engineers
Treated
Humbled
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.
Hilary Mantel
Work
You
Travel
Input
See
Seemingly
Individual
Leaves
Hear
Passive
Taste
Fiction
While
Us
Much
Your
Chair
I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story.
Hilton Als
You
Writing
Past
Believe
Borrow
Write
Emotionally
Until
Make
Without
Began
Did
Essays
Fiction
Upsetting
Form
Story
Your
Reason
Apparently
'Dasavatharam' is science fiction, a multi-crore budgeted film worth Rs 50 to 60 crore and ahead of its time.
Himesh Reshammiya
Time
Science
Worth
Science Fiction
Fiction
Film
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.
Honor Harger
Inspirational
Beautiful
Science
Space
Made
Understanding
Sense
Increasingly
Our
Complex
Visions
Possible
Visual
Vivid
No Sense
Pictures
Like
Science Fiction
Sounds
Been
Surrounded
Artists
Fiction
Whilst
Whole
Lives
Technologies
Images
Speculative
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
Hooman Majd
Writing
College
Living
Some
More
Point
Write
Writer
Like
Make
Cliche
Always
Sounds
Very
Quickly
Did
Fiction
Wanted
After
Fiction Writing
Interested
Realized
Hard
I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.
Hope Davis
Work
History
Learning
Strange
Seen
Country
States
Cities
Would
Stayed
About
Rather
Having
Through
Writers
Instead
Towns
Institutions
Nonfiction
Discover
Traditions
Lot
Textbook
Different
Fiction
Fiction Writers
Many
Fascinating
United
United States
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
Hugh Howey
Me
Science
Fans
Consider
About
Readers
Science Fiction
How
Surprised
Fiction
Wool
Themselves
Many
Things
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing.
Hugh Howey
Great
Me
Writing
Training
Become
Way
Writers
Putting
Like
Great Way
Readers
Huge
Huge Fan
Wheels
Fiction
Fan
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Iain Banks
Science
Important
Revolution
Has-Been
Point
Since
Most
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Genre
Science Fiction
Always
Been
The Most Important
Fiction
Ever
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks
Love
Great
You
Fall
Heroines
Characters
Mainstream
Most
Female
Female Characters
Male
Want
Fiction
Littered
Them
Basically
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks
Science
Culture
Reading
Teens
About
Reaction
Science Fiction
Lot
Very
Fiction
Early
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Iain Banks
Science
Looking
Ways
Find
Alternative
Science Fiction
Trying
Fiction
Realities
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
Iain Banks
History
Science
Joke
Become
Arrogant
Own
Research
Furniture
Fabric
More
Foolish
Part
Fail
Most
Well
Practically
Science Fiction
Been
Legacy
Than
Done
Just
Fiction
Plain
Much
Ignore
Now
Basic
Basic Research
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
Beginning
Write
Knew
Very
Scottish
Fiction
Wanted
Right
The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.
Ian Rankin
Love
Great
Crime
Country
Crime Fiction
Back
Books
About
More
Come
Great Thing
Read
Always
America
Fiction
Who
Thing
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