“I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.” ThinkingKnowsWayDesireEmotionFictionNiceInformationOur TimeRemindingNeurologyPolarization Author:George Saunders
“I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.” PeopleWritingRoomsFictionNiceBunchYour Room Author:Daniel Handler
“The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.” WayIdeasStuffFictionSituationComedyNiceTelevisionHonorScience FictionTraditionalWorkplaceNice Things Author:Matt Groening
“American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.” IfsWould BeFictionNiceBeing Nice Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.” IfsWritingMovingCan DoFictionQualityNiceMovementYou Can Do ItMomentumWriting FictionKeep It Moving Author:John Updike
“Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.” PeopleWritingStillsFictionNiceSolitaryDiscouraged Author:Robert Boswell
“If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.” IfsBelieveRunningFictionNiceRiskEnlightenmentEvidenceDecentBuyingFriendlyBetrayVirtuousBishops Author:Richard Dawkins
“It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. And it is such a fantasy. It takes you away from doing the dishes and the laundry. I think of this as a contemporary romance rather than erotic fiction.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsBookRomanceFictionFantasyNiceMarriedContemporaryDishesFirst LoveEroticLaundryLove Again Author:E. L. James
“My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.” PeopleFirstsCharacterFeltImaginationFictionNiceFansMy FriendsPropertyPassionateFollowingI RealizedPrivacyInvasionArtworkInvasion Of Privacy Author:Alycia Debnam Carey
“You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.” IfsWorldTryingCharacterActorsFictionPiecesNiceHappenedPositionEasierDrawsResearchBackgroundsVery NicePortraying Author:Jamie Dornan
“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