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Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world. — Claire Colebrook

Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov

Every novel is a debtor to Homer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo

I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra. — Lisa M. Prysock

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic. — Elliott Colla

Capital dictates the fate of humanity. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek. — R. Curtis Venture

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting. — Mark Zero

I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature. — Sam Weller

Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing. — Petra March

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. — Vanessa M Chattman

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction. — Victoria Clayton

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. — Tucker Max

Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time. — Donald Hays

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us. — Melinda West Seifert

Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk,
when you could not even walk. — Akash Lakhotia

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian McEwan

What distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it. — Bruce Meyer

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature. — David Brin

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER. — Christina Westover

To be a good writer, become a good listener. — Cynthia Briggs

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead? — Mark Zero

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. — Oscar Wilde

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. — Chinua Achebe

literature is a fiction that tells a deeper truth, — Adam Johnson

In the same way mannequins resemble people, fiction resembles life. — Marty Rubin

Only where children gather
is there any real chance of fun. — Mignon McLaughlin

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. — Ellen Glasgow

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction. — Edmund White

You don't turn your back on your destiny. — Trine Villemann

That night, as the stars sparkled in the sky, Polly dreamed... — Brian Maunder

What do you think about America?"
"Everyone always smiles so big! Well - most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid. — Donna Tartt

The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. — Flannery O'Connor

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — G.K. Chesterton

I read anything I saw lying around. Pulp fiction, great literature and everything in between - I gave them all the same rough treatment. — Ian McEwan

A fear of the unknown: what was that called?
Worse yet: a fear of the known. — Joyce Carol Oates

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners
of them — David Morrell

Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular. — Nora Roberts

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. — Grace Paley

Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds"

~Vianka Van Bokkem — Vianka Van Bokkem

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church. — Gregory Benford

To use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself. — Virginia Woolf

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag

I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between. — Marc Royston

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. — Anurag Shourie

...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic."
- Bonita Avenue, p.49 — Peter Buwalda

For some reason, people try to fill you with food when you're filled with grief. I didn't need food. I needed a reason to keep living — Priscille Sibley

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species. — Henry James

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.
'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all. — John Gardner

They wanted her. They all loved her. And they wanted to keep her. — Hanna Lui

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching. — Terry A. O'Neal

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. — Lois Lowry

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing. — Kanza Javed

I'm the muhfucka that did this to you! If y'all don't know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit' a hole in your forehead. — Brooklyn June

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction... — John Julius Norwich

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance. — Victor Hugo

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. — Stella Atrium

And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure. — Kanza Javed

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction. — Kelly Gardiner

I'm sure you can manage from here, and without a further word, he walked out of her room, then let himself out of her flat. — M.F. Roberts

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain. — Ivan Stoikov

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature. — Thomas M. Disch

Science fiction is the very literature of change. — Frederik Pohl

The trick set me up. It's that simple. — Shadez

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. — Mark Zero

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. — Dana Stabenow

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it. — Frederick Lenz

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter

The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such — Georges Bataille

Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another. — Gerald Weaver

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading — Vladimir Nabokov

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

Literature is a virus. — Corey Redekop

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. — Aleksandar Hemon

I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. — E. M. Forster

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book. — Matt Haig

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. — Gao Xingjian

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ... — Simone De Beauvoir

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it. — Tom Shippey

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. — Mal Peet

Living is deeper than just life — Tru Lyfe

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more. — Brandi L. Bates

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory

Maybe these dreams of ours just floats away. Here we go again ... changin' face. — Randolph Randy Camp

One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies — Kanza Javed

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life — Martin Amis

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. — Sara Sheridan

A little vanilla never hurt anybody." He nipped her ankle. "Great shoes by the way. Sexy as hell. — Hanna Lui