Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction. — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Without books we're a very uneducated society. Think of the places books have taken us, the people we've been introduced to (fiction… — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She snorted in amusement at my remark. “When are the guards going to start to notice?” Keith peered into the distance. “Starting… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine,… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could… — Burbuqe Raufi Copy Share Image
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside… — Cole Alpaugh 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 personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator...… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on… — Frank Vincent Copy Share Image
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I write fiction not for my readers and not for myself. I write fiction for the sake of those odd heroic characters… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.” — Dave Wolverton Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Humanity itself seems to matter more to the novelist than what… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Don’t do anything harsh, Arrov,” I say. “You’ll kill him!” Callum smirks. “No, he won’t.” “Yes, he will,” Teague says.” — S.G. Blaise Copy Share Image
My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
