Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, I love for someone to see something, and go, "Oh, wow, I've never thought of it that way."… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I had never said those words because there were no words left. My beloved and I were both exiles from language. Our… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“Weird fiction is a strange beast, an eclectic genre (or subgenre). It originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if fiction got right about vampires-"… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“There'd always been an understanding between Havemercy and me; that we'd kill any man who came between us. I was holding up… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
“But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. If… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“And just then Damon stepped out of the coat closet, and at the same time Aunt Maggie tripped him neatly and said,… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
“Awe! Leaving so soon?” Gabby said sweetly, holding the door open. “I was just about to pull out the gun for you… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
