In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
“The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how sharing of one’s intimate details can make human beings forget the formality of a relationship and bring them… — Ruchira Khanna Copy Share Image
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and… — John Welter Copy Share Image
Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“It happens that in our phase of civility, the novel is the central form of literary art. It lends itself to explanations… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“And yet it was also true that the tumor could not be removed by our doctor, and as a result of that… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
There were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“Gareth Miller grabbed the beer first, then the hotdog, because if there’s one thing you don’t want to be caught dead without… — Jay Nichols Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction. — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
“She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.” — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing. — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it. — David Frum Copy Share Image
“I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.” — Moryah DeMott Copy Share Image
I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What is imagination? I don’t believe in fiction. In my mind everything comes from a part of who a writer is.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love… — Sarah Swainson Copy Share Image
