“It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia." Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked… — Otto Ray and Amelia Raht Copy Share Image
“It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
My first and last love will always be fiction. It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.” — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
“They think I'm not dealing with my grief, but I simply refuse to give them the satisfaction of seeing it. I won't… — Cheyenne Berandi Copy Share Image
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at. — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice.” — Nikhil Sharda Copy Share Image
“Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must… — Kirstie Collins Brote Copy Share Image
“Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal,… — Kristen Reed Copy Share Image
And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“ Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.” — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Where are you taking me?” Andrew demanded, whirling on the Ferryman. His muscles tensed, hands curling in and out of fists. “To… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin… — Margot McCuaig Copy Share Image
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was… — J. Rose Black Copy Share Image
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story… — Rebecca Lloyd Copy Share Image
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“He had heard many of his customers talking about 'repetitive strain injury' over the years and he was sure that, if he… — Stephen Craig Copy Share Image
