I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad. — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust. — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.” — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“What if all works of fiction were alternative realities and Authors glimpsed from them” — Justyn Simon Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“A great deal of a child’s life is being asked and being told things by adults and not knowing the answers or… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
“In the beginning we start with roses. The king’s flower right? Only they wilt in less than a day, especially when exposed… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
“Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!” — I.R. Shankar Copy Share Image
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction is a legitimate use of Multiple Personality disorder.” — Peggy Ullman Bell Copy Share Image
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.” — Kristen Reed Copy Share Image
“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.” — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
