The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.” — Rabbi Sipporah Joseph Copy Share Image
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
“I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“All existence is in vain: unexplained and sterile. I’ll end up alone with all my doubts that will haunt me forever, even… — E.C. Lemus Copy Share Image
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As soon as you start doing that - changing things - it seems self-evident to me that you've entered the world of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There are three things I look for in a story - it has to be a thriller; I cannot see myself writing… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.” — Michael Wyndham Thomas Copy Share Image
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it… — Drew Roy Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts. — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration,… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue… — Colleen McCarty Copy Share Image
“The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely… — Thomas Gately Briody Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It’s a very private moment when your heart breaks. I was thankful we were alone. I knew I couldn’t keep her, but… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… Writing is seduction. Good… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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