I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are… — T Cooper Copy Share Image
This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“WEST SALEM ~ October 2011 A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure… — Cherie De Sues Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“If all that one sees is a tiny speck of perspective in the larger scheme of things. And each perspective is made… — Nikhil Sharda Copy Share Image
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person,” she said nastily, “Can make your life around here a living nightmare and… — T.L. Clarke Copy Share Image
“When pondering who I am, I write the fiction that I want directly over the facts that I hate. However, what I’ve… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes… — Lois Tilton Copy Share Image
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down… — Lembit Opik 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
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay… — K Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt… — David Sloma Copy Share Image
I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
“Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“In life, when you have a partner–someone you can rely on and trust with everything that you are–there isn’t anything you can’t… — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
“To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
