“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy Copy Share Image
I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking “The Dodge Rebellion”?… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One day at a time of midnight. Vicious raining and I wasn't fine. She called me in this terrible night. I've to… — Junaid Altaf Copy Share Image
If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case… — Debra Doyle Copy Share Image
Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us. — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
“The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person. — David Means Copy Share Image
“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
“(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.” — Charles McCarry Copy Share Image
“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.” — Y.K. Raikou Copy Share Image
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
