With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable.… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Genres are what holds each story together and help it along, but in no way should it ever be treated as a… — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction… — Saul David Copy Share Image
“Ready yourselves!' Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared. A great cry came… — David Cook Copy Share Image
As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Her anger, so useful just moments before, was getting the better of her now. She could hear it; she was too loud.… — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
“You were dancing with Yuki and I looked at you. And you turned away and held her closer. Why did you do… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“William slapped him on the shoulder, sending Sex into rapturous convulsions. “Before we do this, I’ve got one question for you. And… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of… — Alastair Bruce Copy Share Image
“It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your… — Tracey Porter Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I recalled something I’d read a long time ago about Satan. When he appeared, it wouldn’t be as a demon but as… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't… — S. Elle Cameron Copy Share Image
I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably,… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
