“Life is like a game of cards. Everyone throws his card. And, the result depends on all of those cards. Not on… — Pramod Verma Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life,… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Even as a kid enthralled with science fiction, I wondered about the role of people in the long-term evolution of the Earth,… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective. — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do… — Brion James Copy Share Image
“And why is it all men think everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly drivel? Don't men have… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
“That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
It's easy to get stuck in a rut when you're writing in one genre for too long. So, when you've been writing… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for… — Livia Bitton-Jackson Copy Share Image
