I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Before we go on from here, I just want to say," he paused and took a step closer to me and reached… — S.G. Holster Copy Share Image
“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated… — Linda Leigh Hargrove Copy Share Image
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
“And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth felt as if every cell in her body was aflame with desire.” — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.” — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics? — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Six month of sitting home, six month of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, going out, sleeping, getting drunk and sleeping again.… — Ellie Midwood Copy Share Image
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I went to say no, but I winced as I pulled my tooth out of my lip. I was absolutely hopeless. In… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
“My thoughts are free to go anywhere,but its suprising how often they head in your direction” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
