God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it. — Alan Cheuse Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There's something about fantasy and sci-fi that seems more welcoming of different ethnicities. — Jessica Henwick Copy Share Image
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it? — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary… — George Mann Copy Share Image
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“It is said that there is never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart. The shroud that… — Swati Kumar Copy Share Image
“Maybe if you sleep where another person sleeps and do what that person does, then eventually you’ll start turning into that person.” — Jack Cheng Copy Share Image
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“. . .but he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it” — Ronie Kendig Copy Share Image
In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“So, you know that group up there in the Planetarium then?’ The pistol continued. ‘Hey they say it’s a small world.’ ‘Are… — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he… — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight… — Joe Mynhardt Copy Share Image
