“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.” — Raymond A. Mar Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Shut the front door!” Jenna exclaimed. Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. “The… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I think sci-fi and horror are a perfect vehicle for exploring racism and injustice, the horrors of that. They are real; they… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“You like almost every genre, but you’re a binge genre reader. When you’re on a science-fiction kick, you stay with sci-fi for… — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is a misrepresentation to call my works fiction; the work loses something when categorized this way. I realize that the stories… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself,' she offered, guilty. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish.… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the… — Susannah Mansfield Copy Share Image
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I love that vein which uses sci-fi to address society's problems. It is the same when you have useful nightmares - things… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
“Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“Kalim respected me and I respected him, for the sole reason Rook did not respect me, because we were very different.” — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction. — Ian Hickson Copy Share Image
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? -… — Barbara Falkenrath Copy Share Image
One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
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