Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver’s autobiography, "Clutch… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
“Future Politics Effecting change in national politics was mostly a matter of making better use of online forums, encouraging voters to press… — Nancy Omeara Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21,… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
“He told himself she wasn’t really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced… — David Goodis Copy Share Image
“Gods, I love this place," Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. "Sometimes I think this whole city was put here… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions.… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
“He strained his ears, and the darkness felt heavier than before. Oppressive. “We’re hungry.” That came from behind him. “They smell tasty,”… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
For about as long as I've been writing fiction, I've kept a record of the books I've read. — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy,… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have… — William Gibson 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
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's… — D.M. Lee Copy Share Image
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