I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways,… — Keri Arthur Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And in a land accustomed to so much anguish, Chase tried to be careful with words. His soccer moms began assigning nicknames… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
“All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea.… — Connor de Bruler Copy Share Image
“The nation has been turned upside down and inside out. The country that was once discovered by people seeking religious freedom is… — Rick Mayhew Copy Share Image
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
My first and last love will always be fiction. It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
“I love you, Karla,” I said when we were alone again. “I loved you the first second I saw you. I think… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You're only going to tire yourself out trying. Best to quit while you're ahead. That way, no one gets hurt.' 'How very… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
“All writers struggle at some point with the problem of balance between authority and involvement, seduction and revelation. Specifically, beginning writers wonder… — Julie Checkoway Copy Share Image
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouses, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. When people… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
“As in the universe every atom has an effect, however minuscule, on every other atom, so that to pinch the fabric of… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently,… — Elias Zapple Copy Share Image
“What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
