“I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.” ThinkingKnowsYearsStillsSometimesKidsGuyFictionWatchesScience FictionScaredCome UpConventionsPiercingsOld Guys Author:Dee Wallace
“I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.” GuyFictionCrimeApproachEvidenceWingsBad GuysRight WingCrime Fiction Author:Denise Mina
“When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.” IfsKnowsKidsAgeUsedGuyFictionWatchesDadAppreciateScience FictionMy DadSatTerrifiedOrangeInappropriateClockwork Author:Duncan Jones
“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.” WorldMayDoeEndsStoriesGuySoundWalksFictionScience FictionBoardsEnd Of The WorldUp And DownSandwichesFiction Stories Author:Lembit Opik
“I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.” GuyPassionFictionHappenedGoldRidiculousTalesMemoirAuthenticityObscureStolen Author:Steven Pressfield
“Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.” LittlesEnoughGuyReadingEnjoyFictionMy TimeNonfictionFiction And Nonfiction Author:Peter Morgan
“Directing is a big responsibility to take on. I think I'm only good at doing things I know very well. I don't direct movies because I get offered the new vampire movie or science fiction movie. I don't get offered those, anyway, but if I did, I would just tell 'em, "Look, I'm the wrong guy." I only do things about people and situations, and I do the ones that I think I'm the best guy for the job on, which is usually something I generate myself.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWellsLooksBigsJobsGuyFictionResponsibilitySituationDirectScience FictionVampireEmsVampire MovieScience Fiction MovieBig ResponsibilityWrong Guy Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"” UseJobsGuyProcessFictionStupidGoes OnDaughterAskingIphoneFiction WritersOur DaughterYour Daughter Author:George Saunders
“I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.” MenKindWantedPoliticalGuyLeftSocialPoorFictionCollegeTypeDegreesWingsPassionateSociologySocial ChangePoor ManLeft WingVery RomanticType Of GuyRomantic And Passionate Author:Andre Dubus
“I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere, but you're in costume, and you're not really fooling anybody. You're the guy in costume, and everybody's supposed to forget that and go along with you. Obviously, it can work, it works all the time - well, it doesn't always work. Still, no matter what, I'm always looking at the form and addressing it, not ignoring it.” FeelsWellsDoeStillsMatterHardFormGuyForgetFictionCarNo Matter WhatDrivingSuitsHard TimesWorking ItCostumesClownSuits You Author:Dave Eggers
“You're already using your imagination because you're watching fiction and then you're trying to believe that this girl who weighs 100 lbs, soaking wet, could actually beat up a guy. Which works in a lot of situations but in a lot of situations you look at it and you're like, "Come on. Could you please get someone in there who actually has biceps and not just because they don't eat?"” TryingBelieveLooksGuyGirlImaginationFictionSituationPleaseBeatsWetThis GirlSoakingBiceps Author:Katee Sackhoff
“Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world - he comes from advertising and architecture - he's extremely easy-going and very calm. He's extremely detailed, but a very generous and fun director to work with. He really encouraged me to find the fun in the part and to have fun with it.” WorldGuyFunEasyFictionDirectorsCalmArchitectureAdvertisingHaving FunGenerousEasy Going Author:James Frain
“I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff.” PeopleWorldDifferentEndsBigsWould BeRunningGuyNextStuffFictionFansLandStrangeRiversTownsScience FictionInteractionFiction WritersStrange World Author:Bela Fleck
“I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.” PeopleIfsSaidEyeGuyAsksFoundStuffMy OwnInterestingFictionClassTeacherMagicOughtOne DayHeyGenerousProfessorsThis Guy Author:John D'Agata
“What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.” IfsFirstsTwoGuyGirlFictionThousandStrangerMilesOddsLecturesFrogsSynchronicityEsotericThousand MilesFirst DateMiles Apart Author:Tom Robbins
“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.” WorldWayWritingYearsKindPersonsIdeasStoriesLastsGuyWhiteFictionCrazyMiddleEnlightenmentThirdsAll KindsGenreBelongingSixtySeventiesMiddle AgedCanonCrazy ThingsEpitomeWhite GuysThird PersonBrash Author:Emily Barton
“The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.” MightEarthGuyGamesSidesFictionFantasyRecordsImagineMiddleProductsMetsForgottenSettingSettingsRealmsIntricateMiddle Earth Author:Paul S. Kemp
“Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand.” PeopleKnowsHelpingLife IsGuyStuffFictionNiceMysteryStrangerReviewsThis GuyBad ReviewsStranger Than Fiction Author:Dolph Lundgren