Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Ray Bradbury

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Siri Hustvedt

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

Fay Weldon

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

George R. R. Martin

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

Flannery O'Connor

The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

Gary Shteyngart

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

Gary Shteyngart

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Immanuel Kant

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Samuel Johnson

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Sam Waterston

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

Wendell Berry

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

Larry Hagman

I was born with success. Lucky for me, I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Jarvis Green

Every time he made a play you heard the fans yelling and that pumped us up, ... He is the same old guy.

Brian Boyle

We've had red and white fans screaming at us before.

Chuck Darby

Every team thinks of their fans as the 12th Man. I don't see why it's a big deal. The 12th Man is our fans, and they made a difference.

Dwayne Roloson

At the end of the day, the fans know that somebody's going to be winning. It's great for the fans, and they were into it tonight.

E. O. Wilson

At the start of the season, the press and fans were saying the manager should get the sack but the way he has turned things around has been fantastic.