Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William… — Tahmoh Penikett Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it. — Alan Cheuse Copy Share Image
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
“Fiction writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously - we're just daydreamers who daydream better than most.” — Flavia Idà Copy Share Image
It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks — Mike Wells Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
