I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love… — Sarah Swainson Copy Share Image
Facts are facts, and fiction is fiction, and a lie doesn't become truth just because it appears on the front page of… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a… — Lorde Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“The things that happen in fiction mirror those things that have happened ---or will happen soon --- in real life.” — Bill Granger Copy Share Image
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the century-long history of Chinese science fiction, apocalyptic themes were mostly absent. This was especially true in the period before the… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake. ‘Yes, the very battle… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
