If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Generally, you have to love someone else a lot to keep carrying on like that, I thought. To have nothing and no… — Michael Reed Copy Share Image
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“He snatched up the reins again, holding her tight. There was nothing affectionate or remotely romantic about the gesture; it was desperation,… — S.A. Chakraborty Copy Share Image
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.” — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn.… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“Here’s what happens when a single mom meets New York City’s hottest fireman… “Then…seductively…as if he received instruction not from the FDNY’s… — Isabella Johns Copy Share Image
“You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information. “I didn’t… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.” — Stephanie Roberts Copy Share Image
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
“Laurel look up at him in question, but he wouldn't meet her eyes. She always wished she had more time to draw… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’ll test the station the day after tomorrow. If it’s good, we’ll make the jump the day after that. So three days.… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
Starring in a science fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction. — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
