TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I have been writing mainly fiction. Occasionally there will be a song that hangs around the truth a little more than the… — David Bazan Copy Share Image
“I often tell my students that fiction is about desire in one way or another. The older I get, the more I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are… — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“IT IS SAID that time is unrelated to everything else. It goes on and on, unnoticing of our actions, our falls, our… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“The four of us stood in silence as we watched the surrounding girls play games or gossip. It was almost as if… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“We blended and look to what it has brought us. I planted lilies on your grave. The rain is already splattering them… — Carmen Dominique Taxer Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.” — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a vehicle to escapism. But fantasy, in my opinion, is escapism in its most vibrant and enchanting form.” — S.J. Pierce Copy Share Image
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the creation of the author or are used fictitiously. Any… — Laurie LeClair Copy Share Image
It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
“If I read this right, Gunther had not come to offer me congratulations. I will not give him the satisfaction of thinking… — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
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