The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.” — Jaime Buckley Copy Share Image
“This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.” — Mark Zero Copy Share Image
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting,… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . .… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, a voice called from the darkness. Taylor leapt like a salmon, then became rooted to the spot like a tin of… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay… — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman… — Catherine Astolfo Copy Share Image
I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth… — Wayne Martindale Copy Share Image
“If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place… — Ben Mezrich Copy Share Image
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
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