Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction. — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The girl I’d been just an hour ago was gone; she’d been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.” — Amy Hatvany Copy Share Image
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir. — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“The maggots will cure him of the infection. I am amazed the surgeon did not employ them and instead wanted to use… — Debra Borchert Copy Share Image
“There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world...” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“You're only going to tire yourself out trying. Best to quit while you're ahead. That way, no one gets hurt.' 'How very… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
“With Catty and Patrick's images in he side mirror waving from the steps of that house like Jethro and Ellie Mae, it… — Linda Leigh Hargrove Copy Share Image
People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument.… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next. — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“I guess you could say I'm allergic to sunlight. If I'm exposed to it, it could kill me.” — Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
It's fun to be able to invent fiction, but I like real stories, better. — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
