I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.' — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea.… — Connor de Bruler Copy Share Image
“The nation has been turned upside down and inside out. The country that was once discovered by people seeking religious freedom is… — Rick Mayhew Copy Share Image
“And in a land accustomed to so much anguish, Chase tried to be careful with words. His soccer moms began assigning nicknames… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers… — S.A. Reid Copy Share Image
I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to… — Kevin Patterson Copy Share Image
We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.” — Edmund Crispin Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
“She looked so beautiful, with every smile of hers, I was falling for her. She had the perfect set of teeth for… — Pritam Banikk Copy Share Image
You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
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