Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

Dennis Lehane

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Ben Browder

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

Bill Gates

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

Frederik Pohl

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

Philip Dick

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Cynthia Ozick

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.

Cary Fukunaga

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

Bryan Fuller

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Mary Adams

Think about where you want to be in a year or two, then plot out the steps you need to take to get there.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Carol Anshaw

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Connie Willis

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Bruce Bartlett

The situation today is so different than in the '70s. The laws are different, and people's understanding about economics is different. I don't see any serious move for such controls.

Frank Murkowski

Alaska's gas has been stranded because the economics weren't there to support development, ... But now that's changed.

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Red McCombs

We'd have to see what the economics actually are. My primary interest is in seeing San Antonio has an opportunity to secure a franchise.

Mike McCall

We're studying it hard. We can't yet justify it; we can't make the economics work yet.

Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

Alice Rivlin

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

Andrew Shields

You learn about economics and mass produce little things to make a profit.

Thomas Sowell

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.