In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
“I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn’t moved, but she… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Fiction writing is art. It therefore, has few mathematical or scientific limits to its evolution. The writer must always push forward, experiment,… — Ron Gavalik Copy Share Image
Like steampunk, silkpunk is a blend of science fiction and fantasy. But while steampunk takes its inspiration from the chrome-brass-glass technology aesthetic… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits.… — Emlyn Chand Copy Share Image
I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Arthur C. Clark wrote: Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something… — James M. Corkill Copy Share Image
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality.… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
“The magic ingredient in fiction is that special something that socks readers right in the gut and leaves them breathless with joy… — K.M. Weiland Copy Share Image
“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is more than just our collective dreams for a human race that reaches to the stars. In many ways, the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative.” — Teri Louise Kelly Copy Share Image
“Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.” — Brook Tesla Copy Share Image
The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly. — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
