“You live on love crumbs. A nibble drops, you gobble up the morsel. The crumb sustains you until he gives you another.… — Jennifer Irwin Copy Share Image
“Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their… — Judy Allen Copy Share Image
I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same… — Stanley Schmidt Copy Share Image
I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time.… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries,… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I’ll test the station the day after tomorrow. If it’s good, we’ll make the jump the day after that. So three days.… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
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
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the… — George Stephen Copy Share Image
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty,… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune… — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
“Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you that you don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
