There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction. — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
“It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“Shut the front door!” Jenna exclaimed. Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. “The… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
I think sci-fi and horror are a perfect vehicle for exploring racism and injustice, the horrors of that. They are real; they… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
“When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel in a life so crammed with busy years,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films… — Harry Knowles Copy Share Image
So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
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