“Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen?” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. — Rick Moody 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
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I want to be Jackie Onassis and have a second act as a fiction editor. I don't think I wanna write. — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless's giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of 'The Wild, Wild West,' seems… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In no other genre can you be believable as an immortal character. I love sci-fi for that, so yeah - I'm a… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer. — Arda Collins Copy Share Image
For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.” — Miriam Allen de Ford Copy Share Image
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“If a wizard should take up residence in your garden, and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.” — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
“If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.” — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
