I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
“You can't live your life based on "what if" or "what might have been". Unless you're a Science Fiction Author, in which… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“At that moment, I had apparently signed a contract in blood. We all know the power of spoken words; well, they are… — Mariia Manko Copy Share Image
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“ No one is on this road , she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn’t the place to be… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. —Mark Twain” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction. — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind. — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
