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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation. — Michael Dirda

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. — Stephanie Perkins

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits — Evan Meekins

Remember Ping-fa, Sun Tzu,' Art of War - read between the lines: kick ass and take names later."

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Stargirl — Linden Morningstar

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ... — Susi Moore

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. — Alan Joshua

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

The crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be? — Hal Duncan

I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else. — Siobhan Davis

It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's — Samuel R. Delany

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction. — Rick Bass

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction. — Tom Robbins

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time. — Aleksandar Hemon

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself. — John Le Carre

... 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

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

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself. — Percy Lubbock

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting. — Scott McClanahan

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 invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take. — Alan Joshua

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. — John Updike

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. — Janet Goodfriend

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible. — Ray Bradbury

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction? — Virginia Woolf

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. — Deborah Eisenberg

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. — Red Smith

Most people think of fiction as a wildly creative art form. But this just shows how much creativity is possible inside a prison. — Jonathan Gottschall

For my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. — Ellen Glasgow

Ome INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world. — Christina Westover

To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. — Henry James

Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature? — Dan Simmons

What makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art — Vladimir Nabokov

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. — C.J. Cherryh

... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting. — Ellie Lieberman

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new. — Lincoln Michel

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant? — Virginia Woolf

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. — Bill Kovach

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. — David Foster Wallace

If the past is no longer present
is it fiction? — Natasha Tsakos

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

What an imprecise science was medicine. It was more an art than was fiction. — Graham Moore

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! — Henry James

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention. — Ted Dekker

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future. — Clifton Fadiman

When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction. — Dennis R. Miller

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. — Noah Baumbach

Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form. — Karen Azinger

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. — David Foster Wallace

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies
but this is very different. — David Foster Wallace

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

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art. — Ian Buruma

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick

It's hard for me to talk about love,' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that. — Anna North

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

Great fiction is the art of a soul. — Douglas Christiansen

There's no better way to get to know a person than through their art. — Tessa Emily Hall

Fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator. — Helen McCloy

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft. — O'Brien Browne

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction. — Francine Prose

Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men. — Charlotte Lamb

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini