I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“Father, what are you to do now?” Triton’s sneer grew scarier. “She broke the law.” turning away from the terrified faces of… — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Most stories are not about people but about life, an addiction like the rest of them that destroys you even as you… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Dashiell Hammett. "He was thin, walked with a stick, and was the only private dick I knew who used the… — Thomas deKooning Copy Share Image
“There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
“Picture this broad: 22 going on 18. Half the guys in my class would have given their left testicle to date her.… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“We live in a society that doesn’t offer any support or appreciation for ventures that aren’t clearly articulated and aligned for a… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
How can she explain to him that every tear takes her further and further away from the box of razors that lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“The first book to use the term ‘science fiction’ in the title was also a vintage paperback, an anthology called The Pocket… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as… — Paul Louis Couchoud Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made,… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and… — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
“Missing: A teenaged girl with lanky, blonde hair and a sunburst tattoo on her cheek. The holographic posters, brighter than day itself,… — Amy L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really! — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it… — Ellie Rose McKee Copy Share Image
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between fiction and nonfiction deeper than technique or intention. I value both but genuinely believe that fiction can… — Dorothy L. Sayersthy Allison Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter… — S. Elle Cameron Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
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