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fiction-stories world common
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. Kurt Vonnegut
fiction-stories jam able
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. Frederik Pohl
fiction-stories might science-fiction
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told. Jamais Cascio
fiction-stories world moral
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem. Ray Bradbury
fiction-stories guy sound
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.... Lembit Opik
fiction-stories fiction sufficient
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. Tim O'Brien
fiction good imagine writer
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that. Andrew Clements
fiction opened quite science stanley work
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me. Ridley Scott
fiction report task tool tradition writers
Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language. Alice McDermott
fiction mainstream reader
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other. Bharati Mukherjee
fiction great information lovely open social talk whether
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. Karin Slaughter
fiction future montreal quebec science shot tons visual
'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen. Martin Villeneuve
fiction lives nature quite since stuff wonder writers
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! Julia Glass
fictional finally fits history politics return totally
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. David Guterson
fiction overall
I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery. Shaun Cassidy
sufficient
I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does. Donald Judd
sufficient tomb whom
A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient Greek proverb
sufficient
It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work. Judith Rodin