I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
These claims [about me of inappropriate conduct with women] are all fabricated. They're pure fiction and they're outright lies. These events never,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Foolish potato, talking to her like that won’t work. You’ve got to be mean and show off your foil-wrapped rigidity.” — Michael Diack Copy Share Image
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
I'd be surprised if non-fiction writers hate to be interviewed. We all hate them, because there's really nothing to say except "Read… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
'Siya Ke Ram' being my very first fiction TV show, I've always wanted to do a role that challenges me as an… — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
“It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s… — Jeff Hutchins Copy Share Image
Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I've loved mountains since I was a girl, and when I discovered mountaineering fiction after college, I was hooked. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me… — Hannah Blatchford Copy Share Image
Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions. — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
“Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
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