“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“One is almost tempted to say... at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond… — Charles Coulson Copy Share Image
The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why can’t… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work. — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
“If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Running her fingers on the scales, she sighs. “I wonder what its like to be a human?” “Why won’t you just go… — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than… — Peter Kendall Copy Share Image
“...I tried to pretend that what we were enacting was nothing more than an intricate kind of handshake." ~Malcolm” — Kathleen Maher Copy Share Image
Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder… — Michael Crummey Copy Share Image
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“In life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t… — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a… — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
