“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come,… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Fiction. . . . It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins. — Shauna Singh Baldwin Copy Share Image
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“When he wasn’t busy chasing unseen mice around the academy, Ion spent hours in the Borean Study, searching through dusty books for… — Nikolas Lee Copy Share Image
“Ragna hesitated. She had known this moment would come. “My Lady, your son Alberon is the father of our child and he… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises. — Gerald Jonas Copy Share Image
“I’m an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything. Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication.… — Niedria Kenny Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,… — Walter Kirn 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
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