“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
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You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
How could I have kept out this incredible fiction? That's when it all started for me. I was, and still am, a… — Arjen Anthony Lucassen Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the… — Eugene Marten Copy Share Image
“While I stood on the front porch, watching him climb into his vehicle, I breathed in the humid air. I looked at… — Debra Kay Copy Share Image
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The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon as fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“He had panicked. Tessier cursed his own stupidity. He should have remained in the column where he would have been protected. Instead,… — David Cook Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail… — Azita Ghanizada Copy Share Image
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
![“The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.” quote by Warren Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c0c/warren-farrell-1187_competition_the-enduring-theme-in-fiction-of-male-co_894909.png)
