“In life, wisdom usually came with age, but death offered another world.” — Jessica Marie Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears.” — Gerry Stewart Copy Share Image
“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
“When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“There is no valid reason for the perennial Christian preference of biography, history, and the newspaper to fiction and poetry. The former… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Ah, dear Reader, is there a married man living who hasn’t purged his drawers and closets of premarital memorabilia, only to have… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Everyday, God gives us the sun- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.” — Y.K. Raikou Copy Share Image
“Some Marauders do do that, but not the smart ones.” Ivy giggles. “I said, doo-doo.” — S.G. Blaise Copy Share Image
Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them. — Sarah Douglas Copy Share Image
“I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black” — M.C. Webb Copy Share Image
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.” — H L Mencken Copy Share Image
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“(there is no pepper on the table; evidently pepper perks the libido),” — Tom Hillman Copy Share Image
In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them. — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
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