“I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.” PeopleWellsMadeReadingLiteratureEffortFictionSeriousOne DayDecidedScience FictionMagazines Author:Fred Saberhagen
“I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want to do a musical one day. I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.” ThinkingWantTryingStoriesFictionOne DayScience FictionMusicalGenreStoryteller Author:Spike Lee
“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
“And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.” PeopleKnowsWayIdeasSpaceFictionOne DayBiggerScience FictionDepthStartingFlightOne WayVoyagesMaybe One DaySpace FlightSmall Ideas Author:Richard Branson
“We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.” LittlesLyingNextFictionOne DayKeep GoingLies We Tell Ourselves Author:Ilsa J. Bick