People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how… — Stephanie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever… — Chelsea Vanderbeek Copy Share Image
“Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
“I was thinking that preparing to meet someone you don’t think you’ll like is a lot like pulling a tooth you do… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks… — James Wood Copy Share Image
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Grandpa said that we could solve a lot of the world’s problems if we considered cats and dogs edible. Like the neighbor’s… — Cole Alpaugh Copy Share Image
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed,… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity. — RJPeters” — R.J. Peters Copy Share Image
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you! — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The… — Yvonne J. Medley Copy Share Image
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
“Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Silver constellations sparkled across the velvet sky, revealing the mythical creatures that lingered in the valley of stars.” — Erin Forbes Copy Share Image
I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest… — David Budbill Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
