“I guess you could say I'm allergic to sunlight. If I'm exposed to it, it could kill me.” — Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--… — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him,… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not… — Alfred Bertram Guthrie Copy Share Image
“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“If you focus your eyes towards the horizon, everything and everyone walking in front of you becomes a blurry mass. That's what… — Cristina Martin Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They think I'm not dealing with my grief, but I simply refuse to give them the satisfaction of seeing it. I won't… — Cheyenne Berandi Copy Share Image
“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.” — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. — Ben H. Winters 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
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...” — Jodi LaPalm Copy Share Image
