“And why is it all men think everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly drivel? Don't men have… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do… — Brion James Copy Share Image
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I think that's what I really dig about science fiction these days - we've caught up to it in a way. It's… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce… — K. J. Bishop Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
It's easy to get stuck in a rut when you're writing in one genre for too long. So, when you've been writing… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for… — Livia Bitton-Jackson Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective. — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
Even as a kid enthralled with science fiction, I wondered about the role of people in the long-term evolution of the Earth,… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever. — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom… — John Irving Copy Share Image
