If you want to tell the truth, write fiction

“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to”

— Phil Hogan

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

— Octavia Butler

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

— Edward Einhorn

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith

“The fiction will seek the real.”

— Coheed and Cambria

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these…

— L.A. Weatherly

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,…

— Trudi Canavan

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what…

— Martin Amis

“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to…

— Nicole Eglinger

In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and…

— Kathleen Rooney

I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to…

— Ben Lerner

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges…

— Robert Coover