“It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart… — Jennifer Faye Copy Share Image
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them,… — The Inkslinger Copy Share Image
Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late.… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine,… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could… — Burbuqe Raufi Copy Share Image
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to think that science fiction works… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having… — Jack Tate Copy Share Image
“It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are… — T Cooper Copy Share Image
“I did the only thing I could. I said the dumbest thing any man has ever said to a woman, “Yeah, it’s… — Amanda Hamm Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked. “We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator,” Joseph chimed… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank… — Robin Mckinley Copy Share Image
“The only one everlasting love is the unrealized one. The love to this thing that you’d never had. Behind it is hidden… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“It took me a moment to speak. My heart pumped madly as though I’d run for miles in pursuit of something vital.… — J.J. Sorel Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life;… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the… — John H. Matthews Copy Share Image
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
“The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his… — Haidji Copy Share Image
