Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
“Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. — Noam Chomsky 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
“I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Fiction tends to spread farther than nonfiction - and as a filmmaker, it's important to be cognizant of not perpetuating the same… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“He had panicked. Tessier cursed his own stupidity. He should have remained in the column where he would have been protected. Instead,… — David Cook Copy Share Image
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the… — Erica Sehyun Song 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
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with. — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
“After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.” — Michael Cox Copy Share Image
“My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
