I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“I never meant for you to see that.” “Of course, you wouldn't want me to see that. It's much more difficult to… — Cricket Rohman Copy Share Image
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
“Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine. — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
“Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
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