In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid 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
“All history is fictionalised narration of an opinion and good authors keep coming up with new opinions on existing narrations. Those who… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“He strained his ears, and the darkness felt heavier than before. Oppressive. “We’re hungry.” That came from behind him. “They smell tasty,”… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction,… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Stephen King writes mass fiction but gets reviewed by the New York Times and writes for the New Yorker. Critics say to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
