I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room,… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
My favourite character in fiction was probably either James from 'James and the Giant Peach' or Ender from 'Ender's Game.' They were… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature.… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread. The hunters are hunted, white water runs red. The Gnawers will strike to extinguish the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that makes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold… — Valjeanne Jeffers Copy Share Image
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“I took the pistol off the man and shot him with it in both of his eyes. Somewhere in the back of… — Eli Wilde Copy Share Image
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer.… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Be who you were meant to be and not what you've allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Mavis as she wavered… — Christine M. Knight Copy Share Image
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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