“Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions.” — Sam Wasson Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.” — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Sharon, you have bewitched me, body and soul. I don't wish to be parted from you, from this day forward.” — Lynda Colucci Copy Share Image
“She had a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of skin.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
“Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?” — Milkweed L. Augustine Copy Share Image
Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right.… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -… — James Frain Copy Share Image
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
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