“Di a tus amigos que soy el último de una raza agonizante. Único superviviente de un planeta moribundo. He venido a robar… — Stephen King 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
I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
“How did you know to call to me for help?” “I could sense a presence of someone magically powerful and I reached out… — S.G. Blaise Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
“Although my husband relied upon me to manage the business, my signature was worthless, much like yours. Now that I am a… — Debra Borchert Copy Share Image
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
“She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the… — Michelle O'Leary Copy Share Image
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling.… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my… — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“We want to fight.” “And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that’s never going to… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
From my point of view, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' isn't just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one… — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages… — Robert Poe Copy Share Image
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived,… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
How you solve your problems are quite different. In non-fiction, you can always go back to the research, whereas in fiction, you… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary,… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there.” — Jael McHenry Copy Share Image
I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world… — Kelly Cherry Copy Share Image
The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“My father was a patient father. He was so patient that when he once saw a sign that read ‘Patient Entrance’ at… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
