“Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local… — James Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane, intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the sort of thing our… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction -… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
“We need to talk," he insisted, opening the door to his jeep that was parked next to my car. I was still… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
“He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others,… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
“Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’ ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed.… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“The time of my departure is here. Place your hand gently on the soil beside my own, and feel the rumble of… — Chuck Black Copy Share Image
I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
“A part of me sought the light in all the people I knew, but with the Shadows, it was like bringing them… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to… — David Hare Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I’m not your boyfriend!” I snapped, trying to gently move her hands away from my body. “How can you say that?” Sara… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“She had been in one of those sleeps so heavy they leave you feeling sad, disorientated, your stomach full of tears. A… — Leïla Slimani Copy Share Image
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“In a book of fiction the purpose is to create, for myself, the kind of world I want and to live in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of… — Graeme Macrae Burnet Copy Share Image
“My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
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