People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten. — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
“We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
Many of the early greats of sf Hugo Gernsback (publisher of Amazing Stories) in particular saw themselves as educators. The… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
