A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction. — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“A related question is where in time to begin. Should you begin far back in a character's past and move forward, or… — Julie Checkoway Copy Share Image
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library. — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Where’s my uncle?” she asked. “I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
“If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming… — David Housholder Copy Share Image
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and… — John Welter Copy Share Image
I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
“My father was incredibly indecisive. As an example, take his wedding day. He couldn't decide where to sit in the getaway car,… — John Bennardo Copy Share Image
I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
“He heard a furious rustling, a disturbance in the trees. He followed Zander’s final glance and saw the angel frozen in mid-air,… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a… — Lorde Copy Share Image
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“These abilities, this wonderful gift of nature, gives us the opportunity to control any living thing on Earth, Alex. The power that… — Mia Tavor Copy Share Image
“At the sound of her name, Lucia’s blue eyes honed in on me. She cocked her head to the side as if… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up… — Anthony Marra 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
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
