“Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
The competitions between fiction and nonfiction, short and long, electronic and paper, are not battles in which there can be only one… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really… — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I've been enthralled by deep vistas of space and time ever since watching George Pal's film of 'The Time Machine,' while an… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,” the inventor said. “The… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
“I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
“To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“She loved people, she said, especially those in books, which was largely how she knew them, but she declined to associate with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I like rules. I like definitions, categories, and writing advice of all sorts. When I'm writing fiction, there are often a lot… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
“He had heard many of his customers talking about 'repetitive strain injury' over the years and he was sure that, if he… — Stephen Craig Copy Share Image
“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“I have a deep thought for you. Science fiction is just beginning to catch up with the Old Testament. See artificial nitrates… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
“I am not a fiction reader. If I already do, I read fiction always more like the illustration of a philosophical-political thesis… — Louis Tobback Copy Share Image
“Dmitri’s nerves calmed as he walked through the hedgerow maze, easily finding his way to the centre, sitting awhile. He had walked… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
“I am going to show you great and mighty things which no one has ever seen before… I am going to take… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
