There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with. — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe” — Holly Black 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
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
“A human life Is the time that happens while The Earth takes a break For you to live between Inhaling and exhaling… — Haidji Copy Share Image
Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“The simplicity of youth is mesmerizing to me. Maybe because I didn't know it long enough." London Drake "They All fall down” — Nick Moccia Copy Share Image
“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“I’m not your boyfriend!” I snapped, trying to gently move her hands away from my body. “How can you say that?” Sara… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and… — Kelley Armstrong 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 have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done” — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. —Mark Twain” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
