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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid. -- Daniel Clowes

I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him. -- Robert Crais

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it. -- Ivan Reitman

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction. -- R. L. Stine

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write. -- James Rollins

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. -- David Brin

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Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi. -- John Rhys-Davies

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened. -- Julius Erving

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. -- John Hodgman

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic. -- Etgar Keret

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. -- Mayim Bialik

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it. -- Jill Scott

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. -- William Trevor

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post. -- Kurt Sutter

I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself. -- Joe Flanigan

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded... facebook.com/318008865007896…

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. -- Edward Albee

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. -- Robert Anton Wilson

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. -- Karen Thompson Walker